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| Transitional Work Program planned for Phelps Correctional Center |
| By americanpress.com- Frank DiCesare |
| Published: 03/31/2014 |
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After more than a year of sitting dormant, Phelps Correctional Center in DeQuincy may soon be repurposed. DeQuincy Mayor Lawrence Henagan announced at a news conference Friday that bids will go out to those interested in leasing the 55-year-old prison to run one of the state’s transitional work programs. “We’ve got this far with the facility, and now we’ve got a chance to get people back to work,” Henagan said. “We had the idea of making Phelps a workers’ village for construction people. That’s fine, but down the road when all of the construction is over we would be right back to where we were at. This is about longevity, the jobs that people lost here that are now coming back.” Read More. |
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