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AZ: Budget cuts will not affect prisons

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

AZ: Budget cuts will not affect prisons By Diane Saunders Staff Writer The across-the-board budget cuts ordered by Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer will not impact Arizona?s state prisons. ?The 7.5 percent (budget cut) will not apply to the Arizona Department of Corrections,? ADOC spokesman Barrett Marson said. Brewer called for the budget cuts Dec. 21 to help the state overcome a $1.5 billion budget shortfall. In October, state agencies submitted reports on how they could achieve a 15-percent budget reduction. ADOC Director Charles L. Ryan wrote that deep cuts at the department could be achieved by releasing more than 13,000 prison inmates and taking other measures ? including the closure of the Fort Grant Unit of the Arizona State Prison-Safford...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on December 28, 2009 (boomark / email).