Instead, prison construction became the closest thing state government had for a strategy to revive the economy of a region that was, and still is, in serious decline. (timesunion.com)
The Justice Department would see smaller cuts, about 4 percent, and a transfer in money from prison construction to counter terrorism and removal of undocumented immigrants from the U.S. (visualnews.com)
The opening of the Open Plan will be marked by a site - specific sound installation by Andrea Fraser, Down the River, which uses audio recordings from a correctional facility to reflect on the parallel booms in museum and prison construction in the US since the 1970s (on view from February 26 until March 13, 2015). (widewalls.ch)