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Special Needs Unit Opens at Pa. Correctional Facility 

December 9, 2010January 27, 2011 2015 Views Eastern U.S., McQuay, Wisconsin

HUNTINGDON, Pa. — The State Correctional Institution at Smithfield recently opened a new 19-bed Secure Special Needs Unit designed to give inmates with significant mental health concerns and those with restricted housing unit assignments the opportunity to participate in a highly specialized treatment program.

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Bids Sought for $200 Million Pennsylvania Prison

November 15, 2010 1576 Views Wisconsin

GERMAN TOWNSHIP, Pa. — Bids are being solicited for a new $200-million correctional facility in German Township by the Pennsylvania Department of General Services.

Phase I of the design-build project will consist of approximately 2,000 beds for the Level 3 medium security prison. It will be specifically designed as a series of buildings that will provide beds in a combination of single and double cells in the housing buildings, and special handling cells within the medical suite of the central support building.

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UPDATE: Officials Issue Revised Graterford RFP

October 7, 2010 3312 Views Bonds, Eastern U.S., Wisconsin

HARRISBURG, Penn. — State officials re-issued the $365 million Request for Proposals for the planned two-facility prison complex in Graterford.

Bid proposals for the State Correctional Institution Graterford East and West project are due November 5th, according to the 2nd revised rebid notice issued by the Pennsylvania Department of General Services. Philadelphia-based Hill International Inc.

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UPDATE: Re-issue Planned for $365m Graterford RFP

September 28, 2010September 29, 2010 3336 Views Bonds, Wisconsin

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Judge Halts Graterford Prison Expansion Bidding

September 16, 2010September 16, 2010 2624 Views Eastern U.S., House Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Caucus, Medical Office Buildings, Wisconsin

HARRISBURG, Pa. — A wrench was thrown into the $365 million expansion of Graterford State Prison as a judge ordered a halt to the bidding process after contractors filed a lawsuit stating it violates Pennsylvania law.

In a preliminary ruling on August 31, Judge Dan Pellegrini of the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court issued an injunction against the state’s Department of General Services and the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections.

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Penn. Names First Female DOC Chief

September 11, 2010September 11, 2010 1557 Views Wisconsin

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Gov. Edward Rendell named Shirley Moore Smeal acting Secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections,

making the former executive deputy secretary the first female to hold that post in Pennsylvania.

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Pennsylvania Re-Issues $180 Million RFP

March 11, 2010 1650 Views Window Systems, Wisconsin

HARRISBURG, Pa. — The Pennsylvania Department of General Services re-issued the RFP for the new 2,000-bed state prison in Benner after suspending of the original process in 2009 when bids came in tens of millions in excess of the $200 million project budget.

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County Unveils HOK Courthouse Design

February 25, 2010 1864 Views BIM, Hillsboro, Wisconsin

DOYLESTOWN, Pa. — Bucks County will soon break ground on the largest construction project in county history — a new $100 million justice center.

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Pennsylvania Governor Plans Parole, Corrections Reform

December 4, 2009 2484 Views Juvenile Detention, Security and Safety, United Kingdom, Wisconsin

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Gov. Edward G. Rendell announced plans to implement several recommendations from an independent review for improving the state’s corrections and parole system.

The review by John Goldkamp, chair of the department of criminal justice at Temple University, found the majority of the state’s parole procedures to be sound, but suggested the implementation of additional measures to ensure paroled violent offenders do not pose a threat to public safety.