ANCHORAGE — A new prison north of Anchorage is preparing to receive its first batch of prisoners.
The Anchorage Daily News reported the Goose Creek Correctional Center will be able to house 1,536 inmates. The medium-security prison has dorms — a modern version of a cell block — and a prison post office, dining hall, clinic, barber shop, gym and prison job sites.
It also has two, 12-foot-high fences fortified with razor wire, and 800 cameras inside and out.
A test group of 30 minimum security inmates will be transferred to Goose Creek around March.
If legislators approve money to run the prison, most of the 1,000-plus inmates now confined in a private prison in Colorado eventually will be transferred to the new prison.
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$ 39,000 a year to private contractors: no problem for the legislature. Increase the annual per student funding: not possible as education cost too much.
I guess when students get lobbyist and make campaign contributions they might get treated as well as prisoners.
30 inmates?
This facility cost millions and it will initially hold 30? Guess they want to make sure all the amenities are in place. Don't want to bring in the other 1,506 if the food isn't good, no gym, no barber shop, no post office, and no clinic. God forbid should there be no jobs. Wait! They forgot Wifi and video games! What about tanning salons and the gift shop?
Jim, It is better to be thought a fool than to open your mouth
and remove all doubt. What a maroon....
Islander and jimcollman, well
Islander and jimcollman, well stated.