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Wyoming Corrections Department details budget cut woes
By trib.com- Phoebe Tollefson
Published: 05/20/2016

SHERIDAN — Like all Wyoming state agencies, the Department of Corrections is caught between budget cuts already made and more to come.

In a letter from March that the department sent the Wyoming Board of Judicial Policy and Administration — a body that oversees the state’s court system, Director Robert Lampert detailed how cuts made by the 2016 Legislature would impact “areas of interest to the courts.”

Those cuts will mean a reduction in substance abuse services, a possible increase in recidivism, more overtime for correctional officers and hamstrung drug court programs that aim to help offenders get clean.

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