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| Prison spending cuts expected |
| By The Associated Press |
| Published: 02/07/2008 |
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MICHIGAN - The budget proposal that state budget director Robert Emerson delivers Thursday is expected to trim spending on prisons, but one influential senator has asked Gov. Jennifer Granholm to not count on any savings until legislation changing sentencing requirements actually passes. Granholm said last week in her State of the State address that the state needed to look again at making changes in prison spending in the budget year that starts Oct. 1. Among the possibilities are staffing changes, changes in the way overtime is handled and administrative restructuring, budget office spokeswoman Leslee Fritz said. The governor said in December that she's still interested in rewriting sentencing guidelines so some convicts are sent to county jails with shorter sentences rather than to state prisons, or serve a shorter time in prison, saving the state money. She made that proposal last year but it never got taken up by lawmakers. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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