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Connecticut's Budget Requires Correction Department Cuts, But No One Seems To Know Where To Make Them

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

CORRECTIONS Connecticut's Budget Requires Correction Department Cuts, But No One Seems To Know Where To Make Them By CHRISTOPHER KEATING The Hartford Courant September 21, 2009 Just save the money. That's what the state's prisons are being told by the legislature. All state agencies have been saving money during the deep economic downturn, but the Department of Correction is being told to find $63.4 million in savings over two years under the new state budget. Prison officials are complaining that they have not been told which programs to cut, and the explanation from the legislature's nonpartisan fiscal office says only that the cuts will "reflect the implementation of various correctional policies to achieve savings in the correctional system...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on September 22, 2009 (boomark / email).