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| NC proposing to close Eight Prisons |
| By citizen-times.com |
| Published: 05/29/2009 |
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Closure of WNC prison, programs back on table By Jordan Schrader JSCHRADE@CITIZEN-TIMES.COM • May 29, 2009 12:15 AM RALEIGH — Budget cuts that would close prisons and eliminate some creative ways of dealing with crime moved a step closer to reality Thursday. House budget writers unveiled a series of proposals for cuts in the justice system, the latest piece in their attempt to deal with a more than $4 billion budget shortfall without raising taxes. They proposed closing eight prisons, including Haywood Correctional Center, which would shut down by Oct. 1 under the plan. Other cuts would end or reduce funding for programs to keep youths and adults from heading to prison, or deal with them in ways other than locking them up. Camp Woodson in Buncombe County and other wilderness camps for troubled youths would shut down. “We're trying to concentrate state funding to things that were more effectively statewide,” said Rep. Alice Bordsen, D-Alamance, and one of the authors of the public safety budget plan. Another cut would end funding in the corrections budget for the BRIDGE program. The program sends young prison inmates to the mountains to fight forest fires. They do other work, too. Inmates headed out to Madison County on Thursday to repair a footbridge that had washed away in the recent heavy rains, closing off access to an elderly couple's property, said Keith Suttles, assistant camp director with the state forest service. “People don't realize that resource won't be there to do those things,” Suttles said. The budget cuts may look familiar. Gov. Bev Perdue proposed closing Camp Woodson, the BRIDGE program and Haywood Correctional, but senators balked. With new budget projections in hand, though, House members have less money to spend than their Senate colleagues and say they don't want to raise new revenue.Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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