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| Prison quota system proposed |
| By bismarcktribune.com- James MacPherson |
| Published: 12/17/2014 |
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A proposal by North Dakota’s top prison administrator to have counties share in state penitentiary costs if a quota is exceeded is meeting opposition from local officials, law enforcement, judges and prosecutors. Leann Bertsch, director of the state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, will ask the Legislature when it meets next month to set a county-by-county allocation at state prison facilities using a formula based on the population of each county. Once a county exceeds the allocation, it would have to help pay prison costs. Bertsch also wants the state to establish incentives for counties that do not exceed the allotment. “When an offender is sentenced to prison, state taxpayers bear the financial burden of that decision,” said Bertsch, who was appointed to the top prison post in 2005 by former Gov. John Hoeven. Read More. |
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