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NM: Budget cuts force DOC to recruit Americorps volunteers and social work students. Some prisoners to be transferred back to state prisons.

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Budgets force prisons to tap community for help Updated at: 10/18/2010 By: Gadi Schwartz, KOB Eyewitness News State prisons are turning to cheap labor to deal with the most recent round of budget cuts asking volunteers, college interns and even inmates themselves to help cut costs. This summer the state ordered the Department of Corrections to cut about $8.8 million from their annual budget. Since then, administrators say they have had to get creative when it comes to staffing some programs. An August report to the Department of Finance and Administration cited that nearly one third of inmates were not receiving mental health care. Now the department plans to offer college credits to interns from social work programs at New Mexico State University and Highlands University...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on October 20, 2010 (boomark / email).