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Thursday, February 20, 2003

Alabama's Newest Product...

Riley may export inmates

DAVID WHITE
News staff writer

MONTGOMERY Alabama may send 700 to 800 men and women inmates to private prisons in Louisiana later this year in a bid to reduce crowding in state prisons, Gov. Bob Riley said Wednesday.

"I want to emphasize, this is something we're looking at as a temporary, stopgap-type measure to get us out of the criticality we're in today. This is not a long-term solution," Riley said.

Mac McArthur, executive director of the Alabama State Employees Association, said he couldn't believe Riley would even consider using out-of-state prisons run by private companies to house Alabama inmates.

"This is ridiculous. This is the state of Alabama saying we can't run state government in the state of Alabama. We would strongly oppose any such effort," said McArthur, whose association includes prison correctional officers.

"The state of Alabama saying we can't run state government in the state of Alabama." Hey, Mac, admitting you have a problem is the first step.

posted by Terry at 9:10:00 AM

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