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Wednesday, May 06, 2009

 
JAIL OVERCROWDING AND BUDGET SHORTFALLS

In today's issue of the Charleston Post and Courier, an article notes "And there's a heated discussion going on about whether to delay the opening of the county's new $101 million jail by several months to delay hiring guards" which would save the County $2 Million. Our views on this topic were expressed here and here. It gives us no pleasure to write that nothing much seems to have been done to address this problem in the two years subsequent to our posts. Surely, some government entities are making a profit on the expensive practice of jailing people for petty offenses. So the question needs to be asked again, WHO IS BENEFITING FROM THE INCARCERATION OF "DEADBEATS?"

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