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NV: Legislative panel discusses prison plans

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Legislative panel discusses prison plans Feb. 19, 2009 Copyright © Las Vegas Review-Journal Legislative panel discusses prison plans By BRENDAN RILEY The Associated Press CARSON CITY ? Told that the state's prison population is lower than expected, members of a Senate-Assembly budget panel said Thursday that they would like a delay in new prison construction and an end to plans to shut down an old prison and an inmate camp. Lawmakers commented after Corrections Director Howard Skolnik said the current total of 12,689 inmates is 725 less than what had been projected in the $481 million, two-year prison system budget plan outlined in mid-January by Gov. Jim Gibbons. Skolnik also said local authorities in the Las Vegas and Reno areas, Nevada's population centers, have advised him that crime rates are flat...continue to full post

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