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VA & PA: Fairfax sheriff opposes Kaine's proposal to accept 1,000 PA prisoners which will cause more over crowding in county jails

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Fairfax sheriff opposes Kaine's prison budget proposal Anita Kumar Washington Post Here's another person that isn't all that fond of at least one aspect of Gov. Tim Kaine's recently introduced budget proposal. Fairfax County Sheriff Stan G. Barry said the outgoing Democratic governor's plan to rent 1,000 prison beds to other states to raise money is unfair to local sheriffs who are left stuck housing hundreds of state inmates in already crowded local jails waiting to be moved. "I'm very concerned,'' he said. "We already have an additional burden." The Department of Corrections, the largest agency in the state, with more than 10,000 employees, expects to make up for $20 million in budget cuts by taking in 1,000 inmates from Pennsylvania sometime before February...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on December 30, 2009 (boomark / email).