Friday, January 29, 2010
Prison Overcrowding Considered
WEST VIRGINIA....
To hopefully avoid building a new prison that would cost about $200 million, the West Virginia state Division of Corrections Commissioner Jim Rubenstein told members of the Senate Finance Committee Thursday Governor Joe Manchin wants 53 new positions created to help ease overcrowding issues at the state's prisons. Twenty jobs would be created at a new work camp at Huttonsville State Prison in Randolph County and 16 jobs at the Jackie Withrow State Hospital in Beckley that would be renovated to house 70 minimum security inmates. Plans to expand the Charleston Work Release Center would create five new positions. The legislature is being asked to approve 10 new state parole officers.
To hopefully avoid building a new prison that would cost about $200 million, the West Virginia state Division of Corrections Commissioner Jim Rubenstein told members of the Senate Finance Committee Thursday Governor Joe Manchin wants 53 new positions created to help ease overcrowding issues at the state's prisons. Twenty jobs would be created at a new work camp at Huttonsville State Prison in Randolph County and 16 jobs at the Jackie Withrow State Hospital in Beckley that would be renovated to house 70 minimum security inmates. Plans to expand the Charleston Work Release Center would create five new positions. The legislature is being asked to approve 10 new state parole officers.
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