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| Lowering supervision of criminal costs |
| By wfse.blogspot.com |
| Published: 04/07/2009 |
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House budget writers got a dose of reality Saturday as the Federation continued its session-long fight against ESSB 5288, the bill to cut Community Corrections supervision of 12,000 dangerous criminals. The hearing before the House Ways and Means Committee came a day before the Tacoma News Tribune verified what the Federation had been telling legislators all session long: Budget plans and ESSB 5288 would cut more than half of all Community Corrections officers and endanger community safety. “I think when you start cutting half the forces that are protecting the public with offenders getting out of prison, you’re flirting with disaster in that area,” Federation Lobbyist Matt Zuvich told the committee. Zuvich said the bill and the House budget would take more than 300 Community Corrections officers off the street. “That in effect is half the public safety component workforce of Community Corrections,” Zuvich said. “I ask you, if you had a bill before you today that took half the State Patrol troopers off the street, would you do it? Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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