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| AU Class Gets Insight into Running DOC |
| By independentmail.com |
| Published: 03/04/2010 |
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ANDERSON — Jon Ozmint says reports that 3,000 prisoners could be freed to help balance South Carolina’s Department of Corrections budget are exaggerated. “There’s no authorization to do that now, there’s not even a proposal to do so,” Ozmint told a class of law enforcement graduate students at Anderson University. Ozmint came to Anderson University Wednesday to talk to a class of criminal justice students working on their master’s degree. Ozmint is an Anderson native and graduate of T.L. Hanna High School who went on to serve in the Navy’s Judge Advocate Generals Corps as a lawyer. The corrections director said the story about 3,000 prisoners being freed came about because his agency needed to get permission to run about $30 million in debt in the next year. Along with the authority to go into debt, Ozmint said, comes tight scrutiny. The state’s Budget and Control Board had no recommendations for cutting his budget, Ozmint said. The board did approve running the department in the red. Ozmint said his budget cannot be tightened anymore without risking security, which he is unwilling to do. Read More. |
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