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| Lawmakers Plan To Increase Prisons Budget |
| By northescambia.com |
| Published: 06/11/2015 |
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While slicing and dicing other areas of the budget, lawmakers plan to boost the state’s spending on prisons by $43 million to address needs such as replacing vehicles and fixing leaky roofs and to wipe out a years-long deficit. House and Senate negotiators have reached agreement during a special legislative session on much of the Department of Corrections’ $2.3 billion budget, which includes a $43 million increase over the current-year spending. That amount is shy of the $53 million Corrections Secretary Julie Jones sought during the regular session, which ended this spring without lawmakers reaching consensus on a state spending plan for the fiscal year that starts July 1. The spending bump comes after the prisons agency has been rocked for the past year by reports of cover-ups of inmate deaths, corruption and retaliation against whistleblowers. Setting aside $15.8 million to eliminate the agency’s deficit will bring the department into the black for the first time in three years. Read More. |
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