Many questions remain on Appleton prison

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Swift County Commissioner Gary Hendrickx, District 1-Appleton, lists the three questions he hears about the prison the most: what is going to happen with property taxes, where are the employees going to come from, and where are they going to live?

If there was one theme to last Thursday’s meeting between local government officials, legislators, and law enforcement on the reopening of the Prairie Correctional Facility it was that “we are waiting for more information.”
Among the key questions, and anxieties, for local officials centers on CoreCivic’s sale of the prison to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

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