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Article: Boscobel favored for supermax site Area officials welcome prison's economic impact
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- November 30, 1996
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State officials on Friday named Boscobel a rural Grant County
community that is the "birthplace" of the Bible-distributing Gideons
and the turkey-hunting capital of Wisconsin as the best site for a
"supermax" prison that will house inmates so violent they can be
outside their cells only minutes a day.
The final decision will be made by a committee whose chairman is
Gov. Tommy Thompson.
"We're kind of overjoyed," said Mayor Paul Bloyer, who said the
region's chief industry has been dairy farming, which has fallen on
hard times. Boscobel has about 2,700 residents.
Unlike farming, Bloyer said, a prison is a "growth industry"
because the state must continue to build more cells and, unlike ...