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University Daily Kansan, February 14, 1983
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Let counties house prisoners, new corrections secretary says
By JEFF TAYLOR Staff Reporter
With the high costs of building prisons and housing prisoners, the state should concentrate on housing nonviolent prisoners in county jails instead of sending them to maximum security prisons, the new Kansas secretary of corrections said yesterday.
Michael Barbara, who was confirmed as the secretary two weeks ago, said the state treasury would go broke adding on to existing prisons and building new medium security prisons for less violent criminals.
"The high cost of prisons must come to a halt, or at least a slowdown," he said.
THE CRIME RATE increased in Kansas during the mid-1970s, he said, and as a result, more people were being sentenced to state prisons.
Barbara said one way the state would be able to defer sending non-violent prisoners into the prison system would be to lift a legislative freeze on state-supported community-corrections programs.
"Every time you keep a non-violent offender in the community, you keep a bed for a violent criminal at Lansing," he said.
The Kansas Legislature in 1982 stopped counties from coming into the program, which allowed non-violent prisoners to be housed in county jails at night and work during the day.
Barbara said the Legislature stopped the program because it wanted to evaluate whether it was costing the state too much money and whether
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SEDGWICK COUNTY was the last county that the Legislature allowed to come into the program.
He said Douglas County and other larger counties should be involved in such a program, but relatively crime-free counties such as the lowest population counties should not be encouraged to spend the money for community-corrections.
The cost of keeping prisoners in state prisons is a much greater burden on taxpayers than it is to house them in county prisons, be said.
Barbara said it cost taxpayers $10,000 for each prisoner to be housed a year. And he said that confining women and
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"Not everybody who commits a crime, not even a felony crime, must be put into a maximum security prison," he said.
"I'm not saying the less serious offenders should be walking the streets."
IF SOME OF those less serious offenders remained in the community-corrections programs, he said, it would cost the state only about $1,000 to $2,000 for each prisoner a year to take care of them.
He also said that because prisoners in community programs were allowed to work, their families stayed off state welfare programs.
Also, those prisoners would be earning an income and paying taxes, he said.
Prisoners in community-corrections programs tended to stay in touch with their families, Barbara said, which helps them ease back into the mainstream of society.
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Rehabilitation programs should not be discarded in state prisons even if the state removes non-violent prisoners from that system, he said.
"If we offer them nothing but a bed, and a cell that is 60 square feet, that person does not bother to sit on his hands and do time," he said.
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He said that working to reform criminals helped decrease the number of repeat offenders who were sent to the prison.
other treatment programs, besides rehabilitation programs, are insufficiently financed, he said.
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ST. LOUIS — The state of Missouri, St. Louis County and eight county school districts go on trial today in federal court amid allegations they were responsible for racial segregation in St. Louis public schools.
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Dozens of witnesses will testify and hundreds of exhibits will be submitted in the trial, which is expected to last two weeks.
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ST. LOUIS is not a part of any county although it is enclosed on three sides by St. Louis County. The other side borders the Mississippi River.
The city's school desegregation case began almost exactly 11 years ago with a suit filed Feb. 18, 1972, by a group of north St. Louis parents charging racial discrimination by the St. Louis Board of Education.
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Student Senate leaders and members of the Consensus coalition had supported ASK during the election campaign last fall. Swenson said.
Scott Swenson, the director, said that members of the Finance and Auditing Committee who did not want ASK to receive a fee increase had gotten their
The KU director of the Associated Students of Kansas predicted yesterday that the Student Senate would raise AKF fees 5 cents, even though a Senate committee had voted against the increase.
"IF AN ASK budget increase doesn't go through Senate, it will say something about the electoral process," he said.
"But we'll have our way when it goes to the Senate," be said.
If Swenson believes they will have their way, that's fine. But we felt that because of the controversy of the issue and the number of students who were unaware of the license warranted a healthy debate on the Senate floor.
ASK fee hike foreseen despite committee vote
By SARA KEMPIN Staff Reporter
But Charles Lawnhorn, a member of the finance committee, said, "1 object to their attitude of 'We're not asking you for an increase. We're expecting
"I thought that if we had recommended the increase we would have been ratifying reality because the administration strongly supports
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Svenson said, "Even if they had recommended an increase, we had no intention of taking the recommendation to the ground firmly and holding over their heads."
KU sent 18 delegates, more than the usual number. Swenson said.
Svenson said that because of this large representation, XU controlled the system.
Lawhorn said that if KU's committee recommended the fee increase, ASK would try to use the decision to get more students in schools to increase their dues in 1995.
Busy said the legislative assembly discussed whether to compromise on its stand to oppose raising the drinking age to 21. Some delegates from other schools said it was inevitable that the drinking age would go up, he said, so they wanted ASK to support raising the drinking age to 19.
Loren Busby, chairman of the finance committee, said that if ASK needed an increase in fiscal year 1985, it should have asked for one for fiscal year 1984 because the RU Student decided its budget every two years.
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STUDENT SENATE leaders did not get a chance to discuss the fee increase when they attended an ASK legislative assembly in Manhattan last weekend.
The majority voted to try to keep the are at 18, he said.
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If the other schools decided not to raise the ASK fees for 1985, KU would have a larger stake.
Swenson said he would be testifying on the issue today before the Kansas House Federal and State Affairs Committee.
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