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| Chief: Safety requires additional cells |
| By Indianapolis Star |
| Published: 02/09/2009 |
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INDIANA - After serving 12 years of a 20-year sentence for a slew of crimes, including robbery and kidnapping, Kelvin Fuller was moved in 2007 from his maximum-security cell to medium-security confines. A couple of weeks later, Fuller escaped. He went on a five-day crime spree that included robbing a Fishers bank and attacking and robbing a female bus driver in Merrillville before he was captured in Montana. To Indiana Department of Correction Commissioner Ed Buss, Fuller is the poster child for why, even though Indiana is cash-strapped in this current economic downturn, the state needs to build additional maximum-security cell blocks at two of its prisons. Despite double-bunking maximum-security prisoners and even triple-bunking lower-security prisoners, DOC facilities are at 99 percent capacity. With about 7,400 maximum-security prisoners right now and only 6,186 maximum-security beds, Buss fears more Fullers. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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