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| State prisons approaching maximum limit |
| By trib.com- T.S. Jarmusz |
| Published: 08/31/2015 |
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GILLETTE — For every person who moved to Wyoming from 1980 to 2013, 17 were locked up. It's a trend that has filled the state's prisons, which now house 2,406 inmates — 24 more than their own operating recommendations call for. If incarceration rates continue to rise, inmate population will eclipse the buildings designed to hold them. The eventual clash between the number of incarcerated people and space to hold them has been building for decades and the backlog has spilled into courtrooms. Read More. |
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