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| Overcrowded prisons offer no easy fix |
| By couriernews.com- Andrew DeMillo |
| Published: 12/03/2014 |
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LITTLE ROCK (AP) — Take an exploding prison population, a growing call for tighter restrictions on parolees and a politically unpopular proposal to raise money for a new 1,000-bed prison. What do you get? A recipe for a major headache legislators will face when they return to the Capitol next year. The options detailed for lawmakers in a report issued last week on how to address a backlog of state inmates in county jails highlights just how much prison reform is going to dominate the agenda of a legislative session already likely to be overshadowed by fights over Medicaid and tax cuts. “This is a problem that if we continue to Band-Aid it, we’re going to continue to deal with it,” said Sen. Jeremy Hutchinson, who chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee. “I think it’s time for the Legislature to step up and fix it, and that’s going to take more resources.” Read More. |
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