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CT: Rell: Close Minimum-Security Webster Prison In Cheshire; AFSCME Union Local 387 Opposes Plan As Ill-Advised

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Rell: Close Minimum-Security Webster Prison In Cheshire; AFSCME Union Local 387 Opposes Plan As Ill-Advised By Christopher Keating Hartford Courtant December 1, 2009 In a highly unusual attempt to save money, the Rell administration is recommending the closure of a minimum-security prison in Cheshire. Governor M. Jodi Rell announced Tuesday afternoon that the state's correction department is calling for closing the Webster Correctional Institution in Cheshire, which is known as a Level 2 facility on a scale where Level 5 is maximum security. The closure would save an estimated $3.4 million a year at a time when the state deficit is hundreds of millions of dollars and growing. The recommendation marks a sharp contrast from the days when Connecticut was building prisons and rapidly expanding the amount of space to house convicted criminals...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on December 01, 2009 (boomark / email).