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| Center sees decrease in population |
| By Daily News-Miner |
| Published: 12/16/2008 |
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ALASKA - Until last month, the gym at the Fairbanks Correctional Center doubled as prisoner housing because of overcrowding. Beds hugging the gym walls made it hard for inmates to jog laps or play more than one game at a time of half-court basketball, activities that help maintain peace at the jail because prisoners can blow off steam. Female prisoners were kept away from the gym because male inmates lived there. Now, with prisoner counts down in Fairbanks and statewide, the gym is a gym again and the tension level at the jail is lower than it’s been in about three and a half years, both inmates and employees at the facility said. The jail’s recreation program has expanded to include Alaska Native games, women are involved in activities and the gym is being used to meet a sizable demand for religious services. Until now, religious services were relegated to a room about as big as a middle manager’s office. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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