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Sitka grapples with $300K cut to jail budget
By ktoo.org- Vanessa Walker
Published: 06/19/2015

As the Sitka Assembly dealt with its budget this spring, the city got one more piece of tough news — the state would cut $300,000 in funding for Sitka’s jail.

Last year the Department of Corrections provided about $700,000 to the city to run the jail – that’s essentially Sitka’s entire jail budget.

But with the state cutting costs this year, DOC received about 30-percent less funding for its community jails program. Now cities are feeling the brunt of those cuts.

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