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| Push for private prison funding begins |
| By azdailysun.com- Howard Fischer |
| Published: 02/04/2015 |
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PHOENIX -- The Ducey administration has begun its push for lawmakers to spend an additional $70 million dollars a year to house more inmates in private prisons. On paper, the request from the Department of Corrections is for an immediate $5 million to start the process of seeking bids. Then there's another $52.4 million for operations in the first year. But that is only for the first 1,000 new beds. Ducey wants to add another 2,000 on top of that. The size of the request got the attention of members of the Senate Appropriations Committee, who had a series of questions Tuesday for Charles Ryan, the state's prison chief. Sen. Sylvia Allen, R-Snowflake, wanted to know why the prison population, after leveling off for several years, has taken a sudden jump. She specifically asked about the state's 1994 "Truth in Sentencing'' Law that requires inmates to serve at least 85 percent of their sentence before being released. Read More. |
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