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Justice praises bill on prison overcrowding
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Alternative sentencing programs, including community corrections and drug courts, have kept more than 2,500 West Virginians out of state prisons, not only providing millions in cost savings, but helping alleviate the need to build new prisons, Chief Justice Brent Benjamin said Wednesday.
Noting that the cost of building a 1,500-bed medium-security prison would run between $200 million and $250 million, Benjamin said, "We would need possibly two of those without community corrections and drug courts."
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Justice praises bill on prison overcrowding
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Alternative sentencing programs, including community corrections and drug courts, have kept more than 2,500 West Virginians out of state prisons, not only providing millions in cost savings, but helping alleviate the need to build new prisons, Chief Justice Brent Benjamin said Wednesday.
Noting that the cost of building a 1,500-bed medium-security prison would run between $200 million and $250 million, Benjamin said, "We would need possibly two of those without community corrections and drug courts."
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