Op-Ed: What to do with California's recently closed prisons (via latimesopinion )
at least one correctional facility since 2000, leaving many closed sites prime candidates for community and commercial use. If California wants to become a national leader on prison closure, there’s a lot to learn from other states.
Officials in rural Tennessee repurposed a maximum-security prison into a whiskey distillery and campgrounds. Projects like these should be the norm. Without community outreach and state planning to repurpose decommissioned prisons, there’s a looming risk that they will be reactivated for incarceration.
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