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Local officials fight to keep Pontiac prison open
05/06/2008 11:47:55
By Eric Stock
The Illinois Department of Corrections concedes that plans to close the Pontiac prison are just that -- plans. DOC spokesman Sergio Molina acknowledges the prison might yet stay open.
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But Molina says keeping all of the state's maximum-security prisons open is a drain on taxpayer dollars. And he says the state can house its most dangerous inmates in single cells in Joliet and Thomson -- an option not available at Pontiac.
Pontiac Mayor Scott McCoy says don't start writing the obituary for the Pontiac prison yet.
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The Pontiac prison houses more than 1,600 inmates and employs 551 workers.
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