INMATE CROWDING SOLUTIONS Study Proposes Inmate Crowding Solutions That Could Cost WV $140 Million
Reported by: Associated Press
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Reported: Jan. 22, 2013 1:41 PM EST
Updated: Jan. 24, 2013 9:36 AM EST
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A study of West Virginia's inmate crowding crisis is proposing solutions that researchers say will save the state $140 million.
Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin outlined recommendations Tuesday from the Justice Reinvestment project.
Researchers from the Justice Center at the nonpartisan Council of State Governments have spent months scrutinizing West Virginia's crowding crisis. Its prisons are at capacity, and its jails have hundreds more inmates than they for which they were designed.
The study proposes a science-based method for assessing the risk of offenders as they enter the criminal justice system. It says the state must ensure that no one is released from prison unsupervised.
But it also calls on the state to strengthen community supervision programs. That will include devoting more than $25 million toward substance abuse and addiction.
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