Plan B needed for institutional vacuum

Medical Lake dodged a double dose of worry last week when the state released the first draft of a report calling for Pine Lodge Corrections Center to stay open.

Lakeland Village, however, wasn't so fortunate, with recommendations for massive reductions to take place over the next eight years that would leave the facility a husk of its former self.

This isn't the first time either Lakeland or Pine Lodge has been on the chopping block. The capacity of the 30-year-old corrections center was halved early this year following a 2008 cost/benefit analysis that at first called for the prison to be shu...

 

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