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| Opinion - Iowa could be reform leader |
| By Des Moines Register |
| Published: 10/02/2007 |
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IOWA - In the budget asking by the Iowa Department of Corrections is a request for minimum-security and residential beds. This is important because we have a backlog of 405 offenders in prison waiting for residential beds outside the prisons. If you include those on parole or in federal prisons, the number increases to 916. The budget request approved by the DOC board would increase the number of community-based-correction beds by 250 to 275 new beds. At the end of August 2007, Iowa had 347 female offenders' beds classified as minimum-security. Yet 742 female offenders were in the women's prisons in Mitchellville and Mount Pleasant. Mitchellville is the most overcrowded of our nine prisons, but many more of these women could exist in a minimum-security or residential setting. Thus, the need for more beds outside the walls is obvious. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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