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| Director balks at prisoner measure |
| By Grand Forks Herald |
| Published: 01/22/2009 |
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NORTH DAKOTA - North Dakota's corrections director says legislation intended to help a struggling Rugby jail draw out-of-state inmates could allow county facilities to import rapists, gang members or violent criminals. "When you're bringing someone that has a longer sentence to serve time in a facility that's not meant for long-term things, you're going to risk the riots, you're going to risk assaults, you're going to risk violence," Leann Bertsch told the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday. The Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation could be renamed "the Department of Warehousing Lost Souls," Bertsch said. "Because that is the direction we'll be going." Bertsch's remarks were directed at legislation, which the Judiciary Committee first reviewed Wednesday, that outlines the conditions under which a county jail may accept inmates from outside North Dakota. The full House will vote on the bill later. It is intended to help the North Central Correctional and Rehabilitation Center in Rugby, which has struggled financially since it opened more than two years ago. It has a jail and a treatment unit for drug and alcohol addiction. The legislation's sponsor, Rep. Jon Nelson, R-Rugby, said the center has averaged between 60 and 90 inmates. It has 122 beds. Nelson is a member of its board of directors. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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