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UT: Focus of budget cuts include drug abuse treatment and cuts to juvenile jails

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Focus of budget cuts begins to sharpen Huntsman's plan » Several social programs would feel the pinch and 1,100 could lose their jobs. By Robert Gehrke The Salt Lake Tribune Updated:12/20/2008 It is, perhaps, the unlucky 7. But details of potential impacts of Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr.'s proposed 7 percent budget cuts for the next budget year are taking shape, and they will be significant. They include: eliminating a worker training program; raising the bar for poor and pregnant mothers to get medical care; cutting sex offender and substance abuse treatment; reducing dental and medical benefits for the needy; and closing courthouses and juvenile lock-ups. And it could mean eliminating more than 1,100 jobs, including 32 highway patrol posts, up to 111 corrections employees, 50 tax auditors and collectors, and an estimated 700 positions in Utah's colleges and universities...continue to full post

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