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| 1,500 Alabama Inmates Will Be Moved |
| By Birmingham News |
| Published: 06/27/2003 |
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Alabama prisons will move as many as 1,500 male inmates to private prisons in Louisiana or Mississippi in about three weeks, the prison commissioner said. The move was made possible after state lawmakers approved an emergency $25 million for the system on June 16, Prison Commissioner Donal Campbell said. The corrections system is under court orders to relieve a backlog of state inmates languishing in county jails awaiting transfer to state prisons. Montgomery County Circuit Judge William Shashy has ordered the system to remove convicts from Alabama's overcrowded county jails. More than 300 inmates from Tutwiler Prison for Women have been transferred to a Louisiana prison already to comply with a federal judge's order to reduce overcrowding. Campbell said he hasn't selected whom to hire to house the 1,500 inmates but an emergency contract will be awarded without taking bids. 'My first group of inmates, I hope to have up to 1,500 from across the state,' said Campbell. 'These will be minimum or medium custody. No maximum custody inmates.' The extra millions appropriated still will only allow Alabama's more than 28,000-inmate prison system to squeak through this fiscal year, which ends Sept. 30, Campbell said. He said the system faced an inability to make payroll without the $25 million included for prisons in the $39.5 million supplemental appropriation. It passed late June 16, minutes before the session was required to end at midnight. Gov. Bob Riley had threatened to call lawmakers back into special session to deal with the prison funding crisis and to help stave off problems for other state agencies. |
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