BERLIN, N.H. (AP) - New Hampshire Sen. Jeanne Shaheen says a new federal prison in New Hampshire is expected to be housing inmates.
Shaheen congratulated the staff at the Berlin prison on Thursday as she said they started minimum security operations.
Shaheen said inmates would start arriving at the prison on Thursday, and more would arrive throughout the month.
A prison officer would not say whether the inmates had arrived.
Shaheen says the U.S. Bureau of Prisons has hired 115 staff for the prison and nine more are expected to be hired by the end of September.
The prison can hold about 1,700 inmates.
The prison will house medium and minimum security inmates; federal Bureau of Prison officials have said many of them will be serving sentences for drug- and firearms-related crimes.
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