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VA: Issues That Matter to You: Prison Jobs and Funding

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Issues That Matter to You: Prison Jobs and Funding By Amy Gardner Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, September 13, 2009 Virginia Gov. Timothy M. Kaine's decision last week to shutter two state prisons and a juvenile detention center to help close a $1.5 billion budget shortfall marked a dramatic reversal of a 15-year explosion in prison space. Kaine was able to do it because recent growth in the prison population has not matched projections. For the first time that anyone can recall, Virginia's prison population declined in the past year, and no one knows why. But the decision eliminates nearly 300 jobs -- almost half of the layoffs Kaine announced that day. It also reduces the number of prison beds by 1,200. Would the state's two nominees for governor have made the same choice? Republican Robert F...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on September 15, 2009 (boomark / email).