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| Minimum Security OR Prison To Close |
| By correctionsone.com |
| Published: 11/02/2010 |
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SALEM, Ore. — A 176-bed minimum security facility in Salem, Oregon has been shuttered do to budget cuts, the Statesman Journal reports. The men’s minimum security prison first opened in 1964 as the state’s first women’s prison. The final 18 inmates imprisoned at the facility were moved to the adjacent Oregon State Penitentiary. The prison’s closing is part of a $2.5 million budget cut, according to the Statesman Journal article. The closure will save about $1.4 million for the remaining budget cycle. The budget cuts that led to the closing also affected Corrections Department employees. Sixty-three were laid off. Read More. |
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