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Communities, theater feel loss of Greensburg prisoner work program
By triblive.com - Rachel Basinger
Published: 05/17/2013

PENNSYLVANIA - Several weeks ago, state officials gathered in Centre County to participate in a ceremony to open the $200 million, 2,000-inmate State Correctional Institution in Benner Township.

As part of the opening, employee transfers had begun from the State Correctional Institute in Greensburg, with inmate transfers in progress. Alt

hough the closures are expected to save the state $23 million annually, they will cost the local surrounding municipalities invaluable time and money with the loss of the prisoner work program.

Mt. Pleasant and Everson boroughs, as well as organizations such as Geyer Performing Arts Center in Scottdale have taken advantage of the prisoner work program for several years.

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