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OH: Plans for prison labor at Capitol on hold

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Plans for prison labor at Capitol on hold Saturday, May 9, 2009 3:04 AM By Alan Johnson THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH Concerns from lawmakers and union leaders have prompted the Strickland administration to temporarily halt a plan to have prisoners do maintenance and grounds work at the Statehouse. Andrea Carson, spokeswoman for the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction, said prisons Director Terry J. Collins "wants to slow down the process a bit." The plan was for minimum-security, nonviolent inmates from the Pickaway Correctional Institution in Orient, Ohio, to work cleaning the Statehouse at night and doing outside work on the grounds during the day. Officials with the Capitol Square Review and Advisory Board, the agency that oversees the Statehouse and grounds, were in discussion with the prison agency...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on May 10, 2009 (boomark / email).