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WA Prison to Learn Fate by October
By columbian.com
Published: 08/24/2010

The future of Larch Corrections Center remains an open question 11 days after Gov. Chris Gregoire announced that the minimum-security prison near Hockinson likely will close as a result of across-the-board budget cuts this fall.

Anxious Larch employees thought they had won a temporary reprieve Friday, when Dan Pacholke, acting director of prisons for the Department of Corrections, sought to quell their fears of an immediate closure.

“There has been speculation that Larch is closing on Oct. 1,” Pacholke wrote in his weekly message to prison staff members. “Today there simply is no such plan.”

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