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University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, March 23, 1988
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Group to study prison crisis
The Associated Press
TOPEKA — A special legislative committee has been appointed to study ways to alleviate the state's prison overcrowding crisis, including a $100 million proposal from the director of the penal system, legislative leaders announced yesterday.
The 11-member Special Committee on Corrections is faced with developing recommendations for easing overcrowding before the Legislature finishes its session in less than six weeks. Most of its members are on one of the legislative budget committees, and the top Democratic and Republican leaders will serve on the panel.
Senate President Robert Talkington, R-Iola, will be the committee's chairman, and House Speaker Jim Clay Center, will be vice chairman.
"We hope this committee will be able to do something this year." Talkington said. "It'll be difficult to get it done, but not saying it's completely impossible."
Gov. Mike Hayden's press secretary, Mike Peterson, said that the governor was encouraged by the
formation of the committee.
"I think you can safely say anytime you have a bipartisan group in the Legislature working on the situation, it puts the Legislature in a good position," Peterson said.
The state will face a possible federal court order to reduce the inmate population at the Kansas State Penitentiary in Lansing as the result of a reopened lawsuit brought by prisoners there. The state prison system houses more than 5,800 inmates in buildings designed to hold a maximum of 5,015.
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