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Senators Object To Transfers From Conn. Prison To Ala.

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A new system may help Jefferson County keep track of prisoners released on parole.

Eleven U.S. Senators from northeastern states are criticizing the federal Bureau of Prisons over plans to turn the women's prison in Danbury into a facility for men.

In a letter dated Friday to Charles E. Samuels, Jr., the bureau's director, the senators say the plan would leave the region without any federal prison beds for women and create a hardship for the inmates' families.

The senators say the plan calls for moving up to 1,000 women from Danbury to a prison in Aliceville, Ala. The transfers are slated to begin this month and be completed by December.

Chris Burke, a spokesman for the bureau of prisons, says the move was needed because of a shortage of beds for men in the system.

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