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| Alaska halfway house population falls as corrections officials try to tamp down walkaways |
| By adn.com- Devin Kelly |
| Published: 08/08/2016 |
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Reacting to criticism that too many halfway house residents have walked away from their confines, state corrections officials are placing fewer inmates there and are asking prosecutors and cops to report when a halfway house resident is under investigation for a crime — even if charges haven't been filed. The number of inmates in the state's eight low-security, privately run halfway houses has dropped by 300 people — nearly 40 percent — since 2013. At the end of July, the population was the lowest it's been in years, which corrections officials said was the result of new policies keeping out inmates of halfway houses who they say could be a higher risk of escaping. At the same time, Department of Corrections officials say concern about halfway house escapes may be overblown — their records show the number of walkaways has changed little in recent years and has always been a tiny fraction of the total halfway house population. And with fewer people in halfway houses, the total number of walkaways has also declined, the officials said. Read More. |
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