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| Agency Seeking Significant Corrections Staff Additions |
| By wvmetronews.com |
| Published: 01/29/2010 |
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Corrections Expansion The state Division of Corrections is the only state agency seeking significant staff additions in next year's state budget. State Corrections Commissioner Jim Rubenstein told members of the Senate Finance Committee Thursday the governor wants 53 new positions created to help ease overcrowding issues at the state's prisons. Rubenstein says 20 jobs would be created at a new work camp at Huttonsville State Prison in Randolph County and 16 jobs at the Jackie Withrow State Hospital in Beckley that would be renovated to house 70 minimum security inmates. There are also plans to expand the Charleston Work Release Center, which would create five new positions. The legislature is also being asked to approve 10 new state parole officers to respond to the growing ranks of paroled inmates. Commissioner Rubenstein says he's hopeful expansion of the programs for non-violent offenders will free up several hundred beds in the state prisons. There are currently about 13-hundred state prison inmates that have to be housed in regional jails because of overcrowding issues. Rubenstein says the moves will hopefully help the state avoid building a new prison that would cost about $200 million. Read More. |
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