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| Pennsylvania's newest, most expensive prison is finally ready - and inmates are dreading it |
| By philly.com- Samantha Melamed |
| Published: 05/17/2018 |
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Years after Pennsylvania’s newest, biggest, and most expensive prison, State Correctional Institution Phoenix, was slated for completion, certificates of occupancy have at long last been issued for the entire $400 million, 3,830-bed complex in Montgomery County. The move from Graterford Prison finally seems imminent. Staff have packed up their offices. And the men currently housed at Graterford, which Phoenix will replace, have been issued two moving boxes each. “All the shops are shut down; the machinery is out. Counselors are living out of boxes in their offices,” said Jorge Cintron Jr., an inmate who has called Graterford home for more than a decade. The chapel, he said, has been short on Bibles, because those, too, were boxed up. Read More. |
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