PA DOC May Lease Back Prison It Sold
The Pennsylvania Department of Corrections may lease a former state prison in southwestern Pennsylvania that was sold four years ago. Story from Philly.com.
State prison officials say plans to lease the former State Correctional Institution at Waynesburg in Greene County remain in the discussion stage. The state wants to build four new prisons because it has 51,000 inmates, despite an official capacity for only 43,000. Bids for one of those projects was rejected last month as too expensive. For now, the state is housing extra inmates in county jails around the state.
The state sold the prison in 2005 to Charles Powell of Cambridge Springs, Md. Powell says he spent about $6 million renovating it, but a school he housed there for young drug and alcohol addicts closed about three years ago.
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