Feds purchase Illinois state prison for $165 million

[Col. Flagg]

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SPRINGFIELD — The Obama administration and Gov. Pat Quinn have mapped out an end-run around the GOP that will enable the state to unload the long-mothballed Thomson Correctional Center for $165 million, U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin’s office confirmed Tuesday.

The federal government will pay that amount to convert the facility, built in the 1990s but never opened because the state couldn’t afford to staff it, into a maximum-security prison.

:-s

[Kaarno]

You would have thought Staffing the place would have been in the thought process before they built it.

Oohhhh wait this could be like a field of dreams sequel, only in horror movie form. If you build it they will come.

[Henmasher]

You would have thought Staffing the place would have been in the thought process before they built it.

Oohhhh wait this could be like a field of dreams sequel, only in horror movie form. If you build it they will come.

=)) =))

[britjas]

Gotta use that NDAA to keep it full, right?

[laronius]

Obviously the building of the prison involoved labor unions, staffing it doesn't. At least not to my knowledge.

The federal govt operating a prison is kind of like a fox guarding a hen house. Heck, you could probably fill it with Chicago politicians alone.