ST. PAUL, MN (MNN) – Minnesota corrections officials say they’ll close the state’s two smallest prisons — in Willow River and Togo — to help plug a 14-million-dollar budget gap.
They says most of 100 state employee positions at the two facilities will be eliminated, however some personnel must be retained to support programs at other minimum-custody prisons.
Corrections Commissioner Paul Schnell says the closures are “immensely difficult, but Minnesotans rightly expect his department be a responsible steward of public resources.
Inmates will be moved to prisons in Stillwater, Faribault, Lino Lakes or Red Wing.
(from Minnesota News Network)
