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| MN Prison seeks bonding funds for remodel, safety upgrades |
| By sctimes.com - Mark Sommerhauser |
| Published: 10/25/2011 |
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Eddie Miles Jr., peers down the narrow, fluorescent-lit hallway of the intake unit at Minnesota Correctional Facility-St. Cloud. The hall is flanked by holding cells, where fights sometimes break out among groups of the roughly 700 inmates who enter and leave the prison through the intake unit each month. Such scuffles put prison staff and inmates in harm’s way. Miles, the prison’s warden, and Department of Corrections officials say the physical layout of the intake unit exacerbates that risk. “It scares me that it’s just a problem waiting to happen,” Miles said. The intake unit would be replaced, as would the prison’s health services unit and loading dock, through a $29.9 million preliminary request for state funds submitted by the Department of Corrections and made public in August. The funds also would pay to remodel existing space at the prison. Prison officials say the renovations are needed to accommodate the prison’s growing inmate population and its role as an inmate-intake headquarters for the state correctional system. Minnesota legislators may consider whether to fund the project next year as part of a potential bonding bill. Read More. |
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