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Alaska's prison expenses rise: We need cures and fewer costly punishments

By "eAdvocate"

2-25-2011 Alaska: Earlier this month, Gov. Parnell requested more than $8.5 million in supplemental funding for Alaska?s prison system. Those additional costs account for almost 20 percent of this year?s supplemental request from the general fund. This shouldn?t surprise us. Alaska?s average annual prison population has grown 10 percent during the past two years, and it is projected to grow another 4 percent next year. That?s more than 500 new prisoners in just three years. Consider this: if Alaska?s prison population continues to grow at 4 percent annually and our costs per prisoner grow at a conservative 2 percent, the total expense of Alaska?s prison system will grow from $260 million to more than $1 billion annually by 2035. In that same time frame, we will be forced to build four more prisons, each the size of the new Goose Creek facility and costing taxpayers $250 million apiece...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Offender Issues, News, Recidivism and Studies on February 25, 2011 (boomark / email).