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| Boot camps being cut back |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 11/10/2003 |
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Fewer lawbreakers are being sent to boot camps for punishment, causing the camp program to be trimmed down. The Georgia Department of Corrections is closing the West Georgia Probation Boot Camp in Bremen, which has only 188 of 224 beds filled on average. The states other probation boot camp, in Soperton, averages 88 inmates with a capacity for 112. The department is reducing the camps because it needs to save $2.1 million next year as part of $69 million in budget cuts offered by the prison system to comply with statewide budget cuts. Boot camps were promoted by former Gov. Zell Miller as a way to scare lawbreakers straight by using military discipline and harsh living conditions. We need the bed space, but not that type of bed space, said Brian Owens, an assistant to the corrections commissioner. But numbers have declined as other sentencing measures, such as probation detention centers and probation diversion centers, have gained in popularity. Those centers require inmates to work in the community while still giving strict discipline, Owens said. |
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