LANSING, Mich. (AP) - Pennsylvania is considering exporting prisoners to Michigan.
The Detroit News reports that Pennsylvania Secretary of Corrections Jeffrey Beard has spoken three times with Michigan Corrections Director Patricia Caruso about the possibility.
Spokesman Russ Marlan says Michigan asked all 50 states in March if they were interested in sending prisoners to the cash-strapped state.
In June, Democratic Gov. Jennifer Granholm made a formal offer to California to take some of that state’s prison inmates. And last month, the Obama administration said it was considering moving terrorism suspects now detained in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to a maximum security state prison in Standish.