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| Minnesota officials are split over fix for crowded prisons |
| By startribune.com- Andy Mannix |
| Published: 01/27/2016 |
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Minnesota is running out of places to put its prisoners. With inmate ranks at the state’s 10 prisons already swollen beyond capacity, the Department of Corrections planned to seek $141 million this year to add space for 500 more prisoners at its Rush City facility. But Gov. Mark Dayton left the project out of his bonding proposal — effectively killing it, at least for now — and instead offered a more modest $8.5 million plan that would house less than a quarter of the roughly 560 inmate overflow. Dayton said he wants to work with the department and lawmakers this year on a long-term strategy to reduce the state’s prison population, calling major building projects “a solution of the last resort.” Read More. |
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