State Senator Anthony Sykes will tour the Davis Correctional Center today as part of an ongoing review of the state’s prison needs and the potential role of private prisons. “Balancing the state budget is more than just an accounting exercise,” said state Sen. Anthony Sykes, a Moore Republican who chairs the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Public Safety and Judiciary. ”
“A poorly designed balanced budget that doesn’t preserve public safety would be a disaster. That’s why we are gathering as much direct data as possible to determine how to best manage our prison system without furloughs or early release of violent criminals during this period of declining revenues.”
Due to declining revenue, all state agencies are in the process of reducing expenditures and the Department of Corrections recently announced that will include proportional cuts to private prison contracts. Sen. Sykes will also visit the nearby Davis work center to meet and visit with Department of Corrections’ employees at that facility.
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