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AL: First Federal Prison for Women Touted as Boost for Economy

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Groundbreaking set for Alabama's first federal women's prison Posted by Tom Gordon -- Birmingham News April 06, 2009 Groundbreaking is scheduled Wednesday at the west Alabama site of what will be the state's first all-female federal prison. The facility will be on 120 acres of a 650-acre site in southwest Pickens County, about 2.5 miles north of Aliceville on Alabama 14. State Rep. Alan Harper, Aliceville's director of economic development, said the new prison will be part of the Federal Correctional Complex Aliceville. It will house 1,300 medium-security inmates, have 350 employees, and should open in 2011. Harper said construction should cost about $185 million and should involve 500 to 600 workers on site. The project will be a joint venture between two construction companies: Caddell of Montgomery and W...continue to full post

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