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Advocates press commission to pause $361M women's prison plan and review classification data
Summary
A coalition of researchers and advocates told the commission the state lacks data to justify a new $361 million minimum-security women's prison and urged an interim status review and fuller use of county prerelease beds.
Advocates and researchers urged the special commission to scrutinize the administration's plan for a new women's prison and to examine whether alternatives would better serve reentry goals.
"The administration has approved $361,000,000 for a minimum security women's prison, and that is continuing to go ahead," said Norma Glassell of the Women and Incarceration Project, who…
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