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| Officials discuss deporting inmates |
| By kansas.com |
| Published: 11/12/2009 |
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TOPEKA — Nearly 300 inmates in Kansas prisons identify themselves as foreign nationals, which has prompted a key state legislator to suggest some should be deported to help ease the state's budget problems. But Corrections Secretary Roger Werholtz is wary of a broad effort to deport dozens of the 293 inmates, the Topeka Capital-Journal reported Wednesday. Werholtz said some might not be held in prison in their home nations and might try to return illegally to the United States. The issue of Kansas confining foreign nationals arose during a meeting Tuesday of the Legislature's Joint Committee on Parole Board Oversight. Its chairwoman, Rep. Pat Colloton, R-Leawood, said deporting some of those inmates could be beneficial. Kansas' budget problems forced the Department of Corrections to close minimum-security prison units in three communities and cancel contracts for inmate boot camps. Since July 1, the department said Tuesday, the prison system has had an average daily population of about 8,600, making it 97 percent full. Read More. |
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