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| Governor Wolf closes SCI Pittsburgh prison |
| By pittnews.com- James Evan Bowen-Gaddy and Ashwini Sivaganesh |
| Published: 01/27/2017 |
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The State Correctional Institution in Pittsburgh will close by June 2017 as part of a larger plan to cut the current state budget deficit, Gov. Tom Wolf announced Thursday. The closure will affect the prison’s 1,876 inmates and 512 employees, all of whom will be relocated by June 30, 2017. Pennsylvania’s Department of Corrections announced in early January that it would close two of 26 state prisons by the end of the month, but the Department reduced that number to one, given the volume of savings from the closure of SCI Pittsburgh — close to $80 million. Wolf said that the “growing size and cost of our prisons system has gone unaddressed for too long.” The $80 million saved in the closure will go toward resolving Pennsylvania’s current $500 million budget deficit. Read More. |
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