
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: TUESDAY, February 19, 1991                   TAG: 9102190363
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B2   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: WISE                                LENGTH: Short

PITTSTON OFFERS STATE 500 ACRES FOR PRISON

Pittston Coal Corp. has expressed willingness to give 500 acres on Red Onion Mountain in Wise and Dickenson counties to the state as a prison site.

An environmental-impact study must be made before the site can be accepted, but state corrections officials have expressed interest in it unofficially for a 500-cell prison.

Local officials originally offered the site to federal officials for a prison, but neighboring Lee County got that facility.

Funding for the new state prison, wherever it is built, probably will not be sought until the 1992 legislative session.

- Southwest bureau

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