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Originally Posted by relnahe
Now that the roundhouse is going under and being redeveloped with the increase in land values in the area, I wouldn't be surprised to see that women's prison suffer the same fate.
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Women's prison? You mean the Federal Detention Center (which is coed)? That's not going anywhere as long as the nearby federal courthouse and federal building are there:
http://www.bop.gov/locations/institutions/phl/
Incidentally, there've been similar federal facilities smack in the middle of lower Manhattan, Chicago, and Los Angeles for
decades:
http://www.bop.gov/locations/institutions/nym/index.jsp
http://www.bop.gov/locations/institutions/ccc/
http://www.bop.gov/locations/institutions/los/
and the one in Philly is DEFINITELY the best looking of the bunch, IMHO.
