Maryland prison secretly closed

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070318/ap_on_re_us/prison_closed_2

JESSUP, Md. - Citing inefficiency and concern over employee safety, state officials closed a 128-year-old maximum security prison on Saturday after secretly moving its inmates to other prisons over the past few weeks, according to a newspaper report.

Public Safety and Correctional Services Secretary Gary D. Maynard said he began working on plans to close the Maryland House of Correction in Jessup hours after a correctional officer, Edouardo F. Edouazin, was stabbed there on March 2, the (Baltimore) Sun reported Sunday.

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"The architectural design was from 1878," Sondervan said. "It was big and it was sprawled out. We had maximum-security inmates in dormitories and more than we should have had there."

So my question about the above paragraph is are they going to remodel it to what they would find acceptable? A friend of mine has a soon to be ex husband in a different facility in the area and takes the kids there weekly. Moving people to other states will limit access to family visits unless they've got money and time off to travel. Their kids were really upset that dad wasn't around (they were about 7 and 9 at the time of his arrest), if he was in this facility and moved to another state it would be very hard on them, as it could be for families of those moved to other states.