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PA: Bill would ease overcrowding in Pa. prisons

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Bill would ease overcrowding in Pa. prisons Rendell's OK of new law would house 'lower-risk offenders' elsewhere Saturday, October 16, 2010 By Tom Barnes, Post-Gazette Harrisburg Bureau HARRISBURG -- For years, state legislators have been talking about doing something to lessen the crowded conditions in state prisons, which have space for 43,000 inmates but now hold almost 50,000. And the prison population would be even higher if the Department of Corrections, earlier this year, hadn't transferred 2,000 Pennsylvania inmates to prisons in Virginia and Michigan for the foreseeable future. But this week the state Senate took a modest step, giving final approval to Senate Bill 1161, a measure by Sen. Stewart Greenleaf, R-Montgomery, who chairs the Judiciary Committee and knows the overcrowding problem well...continue to full post

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