April 21, 2008
Alaska won’t have to stop sending certain inmates to Arizona prisons
A bill in the Arizona state Legislature that would have stopped Alaska and other states from sending certain inmates to Arizona prisons is dead. "We'll still be able to take your prisoners, and they'll be returned to you when their time is up," said state Sen. Robert Blendu, who proposed the bill along with Gov. Janet Napolitano.
As written, the bill would have barred Alaska and other states from sending inmates convicted of sex crimes and the most serious classes of felonies, such as murder, to private prisons in Arizona. Blendu said that won't happen.
"I didn't move it forward," he said…
LINK - ADN.com (Anchorage Daily News)
