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Alaska's prison population falls

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Alaska's prison population falls The Associated Press Published Thursday, December 25, 2008 ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- There are fewer prisoners under the watch of the Alaska Department of Corrections this year even though there have been more bookings. The number of prisoners - including Alaskans being held here and in prisons outside the state, halfway houses and under electronic monitoring - fell about 5 percent, from 5,397 in December 2007 to 5,110 this week. The number of prisoners within the state was 3,718 last December. By November, that figure also was down about 5 percent, to 3,528. "We've never seen a decline before," said corrections Commissioner Joe Schmidt. "We've seen flat growth for short periods of time, and we've seen slow growth for short periods of time, but our projections called for between 150 and 200 prisoners' increase this year, and instead of that we actually went the other way by a couple of hundred...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on December 26, 2008 (boomark / email).