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To: epicure who wrote (441)	8/21/2001 10:57:08 AM
From: Win Smith	Read Replies (1) of 51716

Somewhat oddly, the Times picks up a related story with a local angle. The decline of the prison industrial complex doesn't seem like something worth lamenting, but there you go. A Growth Industry Cools as New York Prisons Thin nytimes.com Groups that criticized explosive prison growth in the past are using the slowdown to again call for change. Jennifer Wynn, director of the Prison Visiting Project for the Correctional Association of New York, questioned the wisdom of making prisons such a large economic force in upstate New York. "Since 1982, New York has opened 38 new prisons, every one of them in a rural upstate community that relies on prisoners — mostly poor people of color from New York City — to fuel the local economy," she said. "Maybe it's time to invest in more positive and sustainable industries than warehousing people."

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