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| Written by Kevin Gray | |||
| Friday, 06 February 2009 16:59 | |||
 All that is left at the Osawatomie Correctional Facility is an empty building with security personnel preparing to shut itdown, an old tennis court filled with wight lifting equipment, the fencing for the dog program, and a spot where the Native American prisoners had their sweat lodge.As of 8:30 a.m. Friday, the prisoners were gone. “Two buses took about 62 prisoners to the Lansing Correctional Facility,” said Bill Russell, Osawatomie State Hospital chief security officer. No more will prisoners be able to work out on the plentiful weight equipment, nor train the dogs. The gate to the dog pen stands open with a sign that reads, “No Unattended Dogs.” Just a few security officers were available to answer questions. “They had a good dog programs called Safe Harbor,” Russell said. When Bill Sinclair, director of Osawatomie State Hospital security and environment, arrived at his office at 6:30 a.m., there were already two buses waiting for the prisoners. “I hope they can mothball the building like our politicians would like to see them do,” he said. Russell agreed with Sinclair’s assessment.  “Our three politicians really have fought hard, and I know they’ve really been irritated by the state’s surprise moving of the prisoners,” Russell said. “All we can do is secure the building. Two of us will be down for quite a while to come, though.”
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