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OK: $300 million bond package for prison "infrastructure"

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Sun April 20, 2008 Keeping up the world behind bars By Julie Bisbee Staff Writer, The Oklahoman Many of Oklahoma's prisons are filling up and need improvements. As facilities age, they need costly repairs that the state Corrections Department might not be able to afford without a cash infusion from the Legislature. There are nearly 25,000 people in the Corrections Department system. The state has the highest per capita rate of women in jail, and the third-highest per capita rate of men in jail. The number of people involved in the state's prison system is projected to grow in the next few years, according to a recent third-party audit of the state's correctional system. In Oklahoma, people with felonies go on to the state prison system. In other states, people serving short sentences for felonies often are held in jails at the county level, said Justin Jones, director of the state Corrections Department...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on April 22, 2008 (boomark / email).