Deer Ridge at capacity ... and in flux

Prison adds 116 beds in the shadow of a hiring freeze and the threat of closure

By Lauren Dake / The Bulletin
March 29, 2009

When Measure 57 passed in November, creating longer sentences for some repeat property- and drug-crime offenders, officials at Deer Ridge Correctional Institution readied themselves for an influx of inmates, new employees and the possibility of opening the mothballed medium-security prison at....

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