Friday, December 9, 1983/The Battalion/Page 3
Arkansas prison board
told on overcrowding
United Press International
PINE BLUFF, Ark. — The
state Correction Board was told
Thursday that the population of
the state prison system again is
nearing capacity, and that as
many as 600 new beds might be
needed by the end of the next
year.
A.L. “Art” Lockhart, director
of the Correction Department,
said the system’s experience
from March to November of this
year had led to a projection that
the system would see a net aver
age increase of 67 inmates a
month next year.
The department expects to
get 200 new beds when the Bi-
State Criminal Justice Center at
Texarkana is opened next
March, but, if population pro-
I ’ections are accurate. 600 more
>eds will be needed before the
end of the year. Griffin pre
dicted that as many as 300 beds
would be needed by August.
“If our math is correct, by
December of next year we will
have 600 inmates backed up (in
county jails),” Richard Earl Grif
fin of Crossett, the board chair
man, said, adding that he was
not optimistic about any im
mediate efforts to resolve the
problem.
“Because of the nature of cor
rections and the fact that we
don’t have the constituency our
problems aren’t dealt with until
they’re major problems. I think
the next session of the Legisla
ture will deal with that,” he said.
Griffin said he was startled
particularly by the increase in
the system’s female population,
which was projected at 18 per-
uly.
the problem was relieved tem
porarily with the opening of new
facilities.
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As of Thursday, a total of
4,144 inmates were being
housed in the system, leaving
only 40 empty beds. The popu
lation of the Women’s Unit at
Pine Bluff was 206. The facility
is designed to hold only 175, but
Lockhart said the larger popula
tion had been accommodated by
double-bunking and putting
beds in areas not designed for
them.
At one point earlier this year,
about 200 inmates were backed
up in the state’s county jails, but
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