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| Alaska DOC Searches For New Ideas |
| By newsminer.com |
| Published: 01/31/2011 |
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FAIRBANKS — It costs the state $136 per day or $49,800 per year to keep an Alaskan in prison. Along with rising costs, there are rising numbers of prisoners, the Department of Corrections said. The daily annual average of the prison population was 4,769 in 2004. By 2010, that number had grown to 5,602. Today, about one out of every 36 adult Alaskans is under the “jurisdiction” of the department, up from one out of 90 in 1982, said Carmen Gutierrez, deputy commissioner of the department. That includes people on probation and parole, who outnumber those in jail. Read More. |
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