Your "facts" are wrong. Under the legislation DOC had to work with at the time-under two different Administrations, made it a law that any new construction or expansion  had to be financed by local communities. The decision to build the large prison was made by the previous administration based on the fact that the Mat-Su Borough was the only one that stepped up- unfortunately none of the rural communities did. There were never funds available for needed expansion in Bethel or Nome. The desire was to get prisoners out of the Private prisons in AZ and Colorado. That was accomplished. One might argue that we should have left them there- or refused to build the prison unless it was located in South Palmer- but not that there was a pot of money for rural expansion that had been redirected somehow to Goose Creek. I find it ironic now that folks who wanted to bring the AK prisoners home and get them out of dysfunctional private prisons now attack the folks that accomplished that.