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| WA Prisons Struggle With Budget Cuts |
| By heraldnet.com |
| Published: 01/04/2011 |
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MONROE — When Bernie Warner worked for Washington state’s Department of Corrections in the 1990s, he was in charge of finding locations for three new prisons. He left 15 years ago for a job in California. When he returned three months ago to lead Washington’s prison system, he found the corrections department closing its third prison in a year. In these times of multibillion-dollar state budget cuts, the state agency has reduced spending by more than $270 million since 2008. For all the financial uncertainty, Warner said he believes the Monroe Correctional Complex will continue to play an important role for the state. The state’s largest prison complex houses roughly 2,500 of the state’s 16,000 inmates. Monroe is actually five separate prisons on a 340-acre grounds housing minimum to maximum security prisoners. Read More. |
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