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Price Tag Put On Work At Prison
An engineering firm estimated the cost to rehab the West Virginia Prison for Women at Peace Springs between 1.3 and 2.4 million dollars. The report to Corrections Commissioner McCoy urged options including constructing a new facility for about the same price as rehabilitating the old hotel-turned-prison. The state, paying Alderson federal rates for 34 inmates, weighs closing the prison in 1983 after a long legal fight.
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Charleston
W.va
West Virginia
Peace Springs
P.C. DiMagno Engineers & Surveyors
Martinsburg
Joseph W. McCoy
Corrections Department
Jay Rockefeller
State Supreme Court
William Whyte
Corrections Management
Federal Penitentiary
Alderson
Pence Springs
Whyte