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| Up to $100M Needed for New Prison |
| By arkansasbusiness.com- Andrew DeMillo |
| Published: 07/18/2014 |
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LITTLE ROCK - Arkansas corrections officials told lawmakers Thursday they'll need up to $100 million to build a new prison and $25 million to operate it annually in order to ease prison overcrowding. The request from the agencies overseeing Arkansas' prisons and parole programs comes a little more than two weeks after the Legislature set aside about $6 million annually to ease an influx of state inmates at local jails. State prisons officials told a legislative panel the money is helping, but a longer term solution is needed. "What the governor and Legislature did just a few days ago by giving us $6 million was unbelievably crucial to solving some of the pain the counties and sheriffs were having," said Benny Magness, chairman of the state Board of Corrections. "We have to do a lot to make sure we don't get back there." Read More. |
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