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An animal rights group wants to rent a prison building the state plans to close and turn it into the nation’s first chicken empathy museum.

Really? I could have sworn I visited a Chicken Empathy Museum when I was in San Francisco… I guess that was something else, since this would be the first.

PETA spokeswoman Ashley Byrne said the Norfolk-based group thinks a former prison is the ideal setting for exhibits on what it contends is mistreatment of chickens raised for slaughter.

Alas, it is still but a dream. The state says no.

Kaine spokeswoman Lynda Tran said the state doesn’t lease to private entities except for cases grandfathered in when it purchases buildings.

Better cluck next time.