Article: Each inmate at future prison will mean $28 for Boscobel State money is good but probably not as important as project's jobs, spending

Boscobel has 500 new residents on the way, each worth $28 to the small southwestern Wisconsin city.

Inmates at a super-maximum-security state prison planned for Boscobel will be counted as residents of the Grant County community, raising its state aid by at least $14,000.

That will pay for garbage pickup for a year for the 425-person Town of Boscobel, which sold the land the prison sits on to the city in exchange for the cash. "It sounds like small potatoes to a big township or a city, but it's pretty good potatoes to us," Town Chairman Kenneth Peckham said.

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