Sunday, April 13, 2008
Most Kentucky Prosecutors Not Favoring Home Incarceration Idea.
Prosecuting attorneys and lawmakers say that a plan to allow some inmates convicted of nonviolent and non-sexual felonies to finish their sentences in home incarceration would jeopardizes public safety. Others say it is a way to save money and give offenders a second chance.
Governor Steve Beshear says that the plan would ease soaring prison costs.
Kentucky’s inmate population last year grew by 12 percent to 22,000.
$ 524 million dollars have been appropriated by lawmakers over the next two years toward adult prisons.
Governor Steve Beshear says that the plan would ease soaring prison costs.
Kentucky’s inmate population last year grew by 12 percent to 22,000.
$ 524 million dollars have been appropriated by lawmakers over the next two years toward adult prisons.
# posted by Joe Kinzer @ 9:20 AM 
