Prison chief: Budget cuts won’t cut prisoner population
Thu, 05/19/2016 - 9:52am
Secretary of the Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections Jimmy LeBlanc and Undersecretary Thomas Bickham testify on the effects of a $39 million reduction to the corrections budget before a Senate Finance Committee Wednesday night. (Manship School News Service Photo)
Louisiana has the highest incarceration rate per capita in the nation with one in 26 residents under correctional control, and Jimmy LeBlanc, head honcho of the state’s prison system, believes the looming $39 million shortage in much needed funding to local and state prisons won’t help change th
