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| New England women’s prison stakeholders meet with legislators to discuss budget issues |
| By thedickinsonpress.com- Andrew Haffner |
| Published: 05/10/2016 |
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The state’s top prison official said a more strategic approach for North Dakota criminal justice might center less on boosting finances and more on reducing headcounts during a Monday meeting focused on the funding shortages at the state women’s prison in New England. Leann Bertsch, director of the North Dakota Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, said the state has “nothing to be proud of” in regards to its high female incarceration rate, which is sending an increasing number of female inmates through the Dakota Women’s Correctional and Rehabilitation Center in the small town about 25 miles south of Dickinson. “Instead of just thinking about how to get more money for a women’s prison, perhaps we need to be thinking more strategically of how to reduce the number of women we’re locking up,” she said. “I think you can’t have one discussion without the other, and frankly I would like to see the numbers go back down to where it was comfortable where the DWCRC was operating.” Read More. |
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