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| State prisons need more money |
| By Arkansas News Bureau |
| Published: 11/07/2008 |
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ARKANSAS - The state Department of Correction will ask the Legislature next year for an additional $2.9 million so county jails holding state inmates because of overcrowding can be paid through the end of the fiscal year, prison officials told lawmakers Thursday. The department's budget currently includes $7.5 million to reimburse county jails for housing state inmates until there is room for them at a state prison unit, but the system will run out of money early next year because of greater than expected growth in the prison population, assistant prison director Sheila Sharp told members of the Charitable Penal and Correctional Institutions Committee. Some 1,240 state prisoners were backed up in county jails across the state Wednesday, officials said. Prison spokeswoman Dina Tyler said in an interview that the inmate population has been growing at nearly three times the normal rate for the past 10 months and prison officials are not sure why. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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