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| Legal Services kiosks in the jails? |
| By elkintribune.com - Sharon McCloskey |
| Published: 05/27/2013 |
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NORTH CAROLINA - Moving the State Bureau of Investigation from Attorney General to Department of Public Safety oversight may have been one of the lead stories coming out of the Senate budget released on Monday, but there’s several other head-scratching and fiscally short-sighted ideas tucked away in there. Among them: slashing funding for North Carolina Prisoner Legal Services, the group providing the often constitutionally-mandated legal assistance for some 37,000 inmates in state corrections facilities. The Senate proposal calls for the elimination of the $2.89 million contract with Prisoner Legal Services, “in favor of prison legal terminals provided by Department of Public Safety.” In his budget, Governor Pat McCrory reduced that contract by $231,000 “to reflect the decline in number of inmates” in the state. Read More. |
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