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| Panel OKs leasing space for state prisoners |
| By baxterbulletin.com- Andrew DeMillo |
| Published: 07/22/2014 |
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LITTLE ROCK – A state panel finalized a deal Monday to move up to 250 inmates into an unused Pulaski County facility as part of a plan lawmakers approved earlier this month to ease overcrowding at local jails across Arkansas. The state Board of Corrections approved the agreement with Pulaski County to lease the 250-bed facility in Little Rock for $1 over the next year to house some of the inmates that have been backing up in county jails. The department planned to begin moving about 50 inmates into the facility Monday afternoon, with a goal of putting about 200 inmates there in the coming weeks. "We'll start moving them in slowly and gradually build up to 200 and see how the operations go with that number," state Department of Correction spokeswoman Shea Wilson said. "We'll determine at that time whether we need to bump it up to the full 250." Read More. |
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