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| Arkansas Corrections Board to Free Prisoners |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 12/10/2001 |
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Arkansas corrections officials have agreed to parole 552 prisoners within the next three months in order to ease prison overcrowding. The Board of Correction and Community Punishment voted recently to move up the parole dates of 480 male prisoners and 72 female prisoners, said spokeswoman Dina Tyler. 'The idea is to move these inmates and then reach down into county jails and bring up some caught in the bottleneck down there,' Tyler said. 'Everybody doesn't march out of the gates in sync. This is staggered.' As of November 26, 873 state inmates were being housed in county jails because of a shortage of beds at state prisons. Tyler said the prison system has a capacity for 10,647 male and female prisoners. On Nov.26, the number of state prison inmates totaled 12,463. 'The good news is we're getting toward the time of year when our growth slows a little bit,' Tyler said. Court proceedings seem to slow between Thanksgiving and Jan. 1. |
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