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- September 10, 2009
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Keep Ahtanum View open
To the editor -- Because of state budget shortfalls, the
Legislature has told the Office of Financial Management to survey
all state prisons and look at operating costs, the potential impact
of closing the facility on the community, the prison's mission and
feasibility of doing the same mission elsewhere.
Ahtanum View Correctional Center's mission is to provide a place
for incarcerated aged and disabled offenders to have a similar
quality of life as other state prisoners. It was the first such
facility in Washington when it opened in 1997 and was one of the
nation's first. We have been a model for other states.
Around 80 individuals (with average annual salaries of ...