Sponsor Statement for SB 142: Lease-Purchase Spring Creek Correctional

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State Capitol, Room 427
Juneau, AK 99801-1182
Phone: (907) 465-2828
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An Act giving notice of and approving a lease-purchase agreement with the City of Seward for the construction of an addition to the Spring Creek Correctional Center for the purpose of providing secure classroom facilities and housing for prisoners committed to the custody of the commissioner of corrections; and setting conditions and limitations on the facility's construction and operation.

Last Updated:	March 20, 2001
Contact:	Mary Jackson, Legislative Aide to Senator John Torgerson, at (907) 465-2828

This bill authorizes a lease-purchase agreement with the City of Seward for the construction of an addition to the Spring Creek Correctional Center for secure classroom facilities and prisoner housing.

The State of Alaska has certain constitutional and statutory duties to provide educational opportunities to prisoners for eventual reintegration of those prisoners into society. Spring Creek Correctional Center has operated a successful pilot program that is intended to accomplish those duties.

This legislation would provide space for an educational program, a vocational training program, and housing for the inmates in those programs. Additionally, some work will need to be accomplished on the site although the core area of the facility is sufficient to accommodate the proposed expansion.

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