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Obstacles ahead for bills to merge prisons, parole board
By witf.org- Katie Meyer
Published: 05/09/2017

(Harrisburg) -- Legislation to combine the state Department of Corrections with the Board of Probations and Parole has begun moving through the Senate.

The consolidation is part of Governor Tom Wolf's plan to cut costs in his proposed budget in the face of a $3 billion structural deficit.

It passed the Senate Appropriations Committee with only a few dissenting votes, but similar bills generally haven't done well in the House.

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