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"With more prisoners and no place to put them, Kansas faces hard choices"

By Douglas A. Berman

The title of this post is the headline of this lengthy article from the Kansas City Star.   Here is how it starts: A few years ago, Kansas had figured out how to control its prison population. It had solved the equation and become a national model.  No more.  Kansas is officially out of beds for male prisoners, with a population last week of 8,411 ? above the system?s capacity of 8,259. In 10 years, the state is projected to be nearly 2,000 beds short.  So Kansas corrections leaders have started talking seriously about two options: Either find millions of dollars to house more prisoners ? at a time when the state is struggling to pay for schools and social services ? or start letting them go. Another option ? crowding prisoners ? would just lead to violence and lawsuits, prison officials say...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on October 11, 2010 (boomark / email).