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| Corrections budget balanced by closing, privatizing prisons |
| By shreveporttimes.com - Mike Hasten |
| Published: 03/15/2012 |
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BATON ROUGE — The Department of Corrections is counting on privatizing the state prison in Avoyelles Parish, closing two other facilities in Caddo and Rapides parishes and increasing employee retirement contributions to balance its budget. Corrections Secretary James Le Blanc said Tuesday that his budget-balancing plan calls for closing the Forcht Wade residential substance abuse facility in Caddo Parish and moving those inmates to David Wade Correctional Center in Homer. The plan also calls for closing the J. Levy Dabadie Correctional Center in Pineville, transferring its 330 low-risk offenders to the Avoyelles Correctional Center in Cottonport and then selling the Avoyelles Parish prison to a private company. Read More. |
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