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WV: Sen. Rockefeller tours site of new federal prison says it is a perfect fit for moutaintwop location

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Senator tours site of federal prison in McDowell County Mary Catherine Brooks Register-Herald Reporter April 09, 2009 Bringing attention to the nearly 350 jobs to be created by the federal prison now under construction in the McDowell County industrial park, Sen. Jay Rockefeller toured the facility Thursday. The federal prison is a perfect fit for the isolated mountaintop location, Rockefeller explained. ?This will be a huge job producer,? he said. ?I?ve been coming to McDowell County now for 35 or 40 years, and I?ve been watching it go downhill in terms of jobs ... This will be huge for the area.? Rockefeller, D-W.Va., explained it is difficult to bring manufacturing jobs into the mountains, but the isolated area is ?an advantage for the federal project,? he said...continue to full post

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