Women's prison construction to start this summer

Construction of the new Danbury federal prison for women will begin this summer, U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch told a Senate panel Thursday under questioning by U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy , D-Conn. "I regret to say I'm hesitant to offer , having seen several federal construction projects in my day," Lynch said during her first appearance on Capitol Hill since being sworn-in as attorney general on April 27. Speaking at a hearing of the Senate Appropriations subcommittee that oversees the Justice Department and its Bureau of Prisons , Lynch said an environmental impact statement that had been a hang-up in the process of restoring women prisoners to Danbury was "completed quite recently."

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