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Switch to prison coming soon for West Bottoms community release center
By kansascity.com- Lynn Horsley
Published: 09/01/2015

A new prison will soon open in the West Bottoms, and, in this case, most people are genuinely happy about that.

Beginning this month, the building at 651 Mulberry St. will become a minimum-security prison, housing inmates nearing parole, who will get housing and job assistance to aid their return to society.

The newly named Kansas City Re-Entry Center takes the place of the Kansas City Community Release Center, which for years released several hundred parolees daily into downtown, leading to some crime and disruptions that aggravated the business community.

“It’s better from the standpoint that we will have 400 people incarcerated as opposed to 400 people released into our community every morning,” said Downtown Council Vice President Sean O’Byrne, who has been involved for many months in negotiations with the Missouri Department of Corrections to complete this transition.

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