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| Alabama May Export Inmates |
| By Birmingham News |
| Published: 03/18/2003 |
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Alabama may send 700 to 800 men and women inmates to private prisons in Louisiana later this year in a bid to reduce crowding in state prisons, Gov. Bob Riley said last week. As a temporary solution to overcrowding at Tutwiler Prison for Women in Wetumpka, as many as 300 female inmates now kept in county jails may be sent to out-of-state prisons, said Troy King, Riley's legal adviser. Long-range, hundreds of male inmates also could be transferred out of state, added David Azbell, Riley's press secretary. U.S. District Judge Myron Thompson of Montgomery ruled in December that Tutwiler, the state's only women's prison, is unconstitutionally unsafe because it's crowded and has too few officers. Transfers are not yet definite because negotiations on price and prison bed availability aren't finished and Riley does not yet know if Thompson will go along with his plan to reduce crowding at which was designed for 617 inmates but houses about 1000. Prison Commissioner Donal Campbell asked lawmakers last week for $60 million to build a women's prison that could house 1,500 to 2,000 inmates. But the state is short of cash, and Riley said waiting to build a new prison would take too long. That's why he wants to consider using out-of-state private prisons. |
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