Raleigh officials defend approval of prison expansion
Thursday, July 24th, 2008
By Staff
RALEIGH - Mayor Charles Meeker may live in Boylan Heights, but he's also the leader of a city that does an awful lot of business with the state of North Carolina.
That fact may help explain how the City Council quietly and unanimously approved a massive expansion of Central Prison that many Boylan Heights residents found out about only last week.
The council's vote last June is actually the second prison expansion to be approved by the city over the last year. In March, the council unanimously approved the addition of a 108,712-square-foot medical facility at the state Correctional Institute for Women in Southeast Raleigh.
Councilman Philip Isley said residents should keep in mind that the Central Prison expansion is also a health-care facility.
"It's not like they're trying to expand the prison yard or the execution chamber," Isley said. "This is not the most awful situation in the world." (more…)
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