Early Releases Could Hurt Nonprofits

{Frankfort, Kentucky}...In 2008, the Pew Research Center found that Kentucky had the fastest growing prison population in the nation. Currently, the state's correction facilities house 4,547 Class D inmates. Incarceration costs nearly $22,000 annually per inmate. The Department of Corrections says 9 of the state's 14 correction facilities are over capacity, but some of those inmates are set to be released Tuesday. State lawmakers hope the early releases will save the Department of Corrections about $30 million by putting 1,000 inmates across the state on parole, but some say it could have an unintended negative effect on nonprofits who rely on the inmates to help with their workload.