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| State ships out more inmates |
| By Star-Tribune |
| Published: 03/14/2005 |
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The Wyoming Department of Corrections recently moved 33 women inmates from the Women's Corrections Center at Lusk to the Rolling Plains Regional Jail and Detention Center at Haskell, Texas, a department spokesman said last Wednesday. On the same day, Feb. 18, the department moved 27 male inmates from the Wyoming State Penitentiary at Rawlins to the Haskell, Texas, facility. In addition to the 33 women inmates, a total of 40 Wyoming women prisoners are incarcerated at a facility in Brush, Colo. Remaining in Lusk are 116 women prisoners, said Melinda Brazzale, Department of Corrections public information officer. When the expansion of the women's prison in Lusk is finished in the summer of 2006, all the women can be moved back to Wyoming, Brazzale said. The department, meanwhile, has pulled all Wyoming male inmates out of the Nevada Department of Corrections prisons. Nineteen male inmates were moved from Nevada back to the Wyoming State Penitentiary at Rawlins on Jan. 24. The following day, 65 more were moved from Nevada to the Rolling Plains regional center in Haskell, Texas. No Wyoming inmates remain in Nevada prisons, Brazzale said. The reason for the pullback, she said, was to consolidate the inmates, which was possible because of the contract with the large Rolling Plains prison in Texas. "Now they're in three states instead of four," Brazzale said. Also, the department was able to move the 19 higher-security inmates from Nevada back to the Wyoming State Penitentiary maximum-security prison. The total prison population at the penitentiary in Rawlins is 667. Although an expansion project is under way to add a medium-security unit there, it will not mean an increase in the number of inmates. The purpose of the project is to provide a unit for each inmate and end double-bunking, Brazzale said. The Legislature recently appropriated $76 million to build a 650-bed medium-security prison at Torrington. Total cost of the new prison is about $84 million when the $8.4 million money spent on design and construction administration is counted. A Department of Corrections team chose Torrington over Rawlins and Riverton as the preferred site for the new 310,000-square-foot prison. The facility will employ about 300 people, including professionals under contract. Construction of the new prison is scheduled to be finished by the fall of 2007. At that time, the inmates housed in out-of-state prisons will be returned to Wyoming, state officials say. |
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