“Twenty percent of the women entering prison in fiscal year 2002 were found to have a primary substance dependence on amphetamine. For fiscal year 2006, that number has risen to 40 percent.”
“We were running out of space for female inmates and needed to provide some relief for the Women's Prison. The use of these dorms will provide needed space at a low cost to the taxpayers.”
“We started the year with 3,075 adult inmates in our system, and by year's end, that number had grown to 3,408, an increase of nearly 11 percent. This follows back-to-back fiscal years when the average daily count of the prison population grew by less than 4 percent each year.”
