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Archive Home > 2011 > October > 09 > Officials: 3 more prisons needed

Officials: 3 more prisons needed


October 9, 2011

PORTLAND — Oregon prison officials say they’ll need to open three more prisons to hold 2,000 new inmates expected in the next decade.

The Oregonian reported that the cost of opening two prisons now sitting empty and building a third would be at least $608 million by 2021.

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