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Palumbo: Prison overcrowding bill also will enhance safety
By Phil Kabler, The Charleston Gazette
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- One issue overlooked in the governor's bill to reduce prison overcrowding (SB371) is its potential to enhance safety, Senate Judiciary Chairman Corey Palumbo, D-Kanawha, said Wednesday.

"I think it also will really improve public safety," he said of provisions to require mandatory post-release supervision of all inmates. "It's not just, 'Let's try to reduce our prison population.'"

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Palumbo: Prison overcrowding bill also will enhance safety
By Phil Kabler, The Charleston Gazette
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- One issue overlooked in the governor's bill to reduce prison overcrowding (SB371) is its potential to enhance safety, Senate Judiciary Chairman Corey Palumbo, D-Kanawha, said Wednesday.

"I think it also will really improve public safety," he said of provisions to require mandatory post-release supervision of all inmates. "It's not just, 'Let's try to reduce our prison population.'"

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