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Prison practicalities in lean budget times

By Douglas A. Berman

Thanks to entries at The Crime Report, I saw these two notable stories from Louisiana and Texas that provide a sign of our lean budget times here in incarceration nation: "La. explores prison sale": The Jindal administration is asking companies to detail how much they would charge the state to care for inmates in Allen and Winn parishes if two state prisons are sold to ease budget problems. "Texas House budget writers urge prisons to release more feeble inmates": Texas? corrections chiefs should consider freeing more feeble inmates and quit holding them until they die, some House budget writers said Thursday.  Legislative budget staff members have criticized current practices, saying they sock taxpayers with huge costs for gravely disabled and geriatric inmates? medical care in prison...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on February 11, 2011 (boomark / email).