Fund cut shutters halfway housing

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http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/anchorage/story/7755890p-7668094c.html

"One of Anchorage's four halfway houses is scheduled to shut down by July 1, a loss of about 25 percent of the beds available here for housing low-risk inmates.


The Legislature directed the Department of Corrections to close Parkview Community Center when it eliminated roughly $2.5 million from the department's halfway house funding. Parkview is managed by Cornell Companies of Alaska Inc. Its contract with the department for that facility expires July 1, said Portia Parker, corrections deputy commissioner.

On the surface, the shutdown is puzzling: Aren't our jails and prisons overcrowded? And aren't some 800 Alaskans currently imprisoned Outside because there isn't room for them here?"