Lawmakers Told Overcrowding Increases Violence in State Jails
Charleston Gazette › July 12, 2011
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Severe overcrowding in the state's 10 regional jails has caused a spike in inmate violence, the Regional Jail Authority's executive director told legislators Monday.
From July 2010 to June 2011, there were 695 reported incidents of inmate-on-inmate violence. That's up 40 percent from 2009-10, when 496 incidents occurred, Larry Parsons told the Legislative Oversight Committee on Regional Jails and Corrections.See the full content of this document
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Lawmakers Told Overcrowding Increases Violence in State Jails
Incidents of inmate-on-staff violence jumped 87 percent, from 162 incidents in 2009-10 to 303 incidents in 2010-11, he said.
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