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| W.Va. needs to face prison, jail crowding |
| By dailymail.com - Editorial |
| Published: 07/09/2012 |
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Maintaining public safety is one of the principal reasons that people form governments. Public officials have always had trouble delivering it. West Virginia, which once ranked low on incarceration and corrections spending, now finds itself a leader in the growth of prison and regional jail populations - partly because of abuse of legal and illegal drugs. As Vicki Smith of The Associated Press reported, the state Department of Corrections is dealing with a prison population that grew more rapidly than that of any other between 2000 and 2009. Corrections' problems spill over into the regional jail system. Today, more than 1,800 convicted felons are parked in jails awaiting space in prisons - twice as many as were marking time in jail 10 years ago. Should the state have built a larger prison when it closed the Civil War-era Moundsville prison? Should West Virginia put a couple of hundred million dollars into another facility? Read More. |
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