State Budgeting Committee Declines Plans for Youth Prisons
By Frederica Freyberg, Kynala Phillips | Here & Now
February 15, 2020
Wednesday the Joint Finance Committee voted against funding two new juvenile prisons meant to replace the controversial Lincoln Hills and Copper Lake Schools. The decision to decline funds to the project pushes back the state’s goal of closing the two facilities by 2021.
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