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| Pains of Trooper Cuts Felt At Small Community Jails |
| By alaskapublic.org- Joe Sykes |
| Published: 07/24/2015 |
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Budget cuts to state troopers are taking place all over Alaska. But in small Southeast communities, like Petersburg, it’s a double whammy. That’s because community jails are also taking a hit. And the two are inextricably linked. When you think of doing time, most people imagine something on a grand scale like out of the film “The Shawshank Redemption.” But the community jails in Southeast are a little different from that. Kelly Swihart is Petersburg’s Chief of Police. He shows me a cell block made up of two rooms lodged at the back of the Petersburg police station. He takes me into one of the cells. Read More. |
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