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| Sheriff joins call for new prison |
| By nwaonline.com- Spencer Willems |
| Published: 10/01/2015 |
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Arkansas Sheriffs' Association President John Montgomery told state lawmakers Wednesday that his county's jail is crowded with inmates awaiting state prison space and that the backlog will continue unless the state builds another penitentiary. "In my opinion, we're going to need another prison," Montgomery told the Criminal Justice Oversight Task Force. "I know that's not popular. I know nobody wants to talk about it, no one wants to talk about the cost." Montgomery, who is the Baxter County sheriff, said a new prison is needed "in order to make room for those people who continually violate and repeat over and over and over. Those are the people hurting our society." In July 2014, state corrections officials recommended construction of a 1,000-bed, maximum-security lockup to help alleviate prison crowding. As of Wednesday, county jails were holding 1,958 of the state's 18,549 inmates. Read More. |
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