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NV:Committee hears testimony against closing aging prison

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Committee hears testimony against closing aging prison By Cy Ryan Feb. 22, 2011 | 1:33 p.m. Las Vegas Sun CARSON CITY ? Veteran correctional officers and a union official told a legislative budget subcommittee Tuesday that the staff in the prison system is getting hit extra hard in the proposed cutbacks in Gov. Brian Sandoval?s budget. Dan Shoup, a senior correctional officer at the aging Nevada State Prison in Carson City, worked a full overnight shift and came to testify on Tuesday. ?There are so many cuts and it affects the morale of the staff," he said. Kevin Ranft, a representative of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, testified that Nevada has the lowest ratio of correctional officers to inmates in the nation...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on February 23, 2011 (boomark / email).