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Debate over shifting inmate-education funds to Corrections roils Utah House; bill circled
Summary
Lawmakers debated a substitute to HB100 that would move telephone-surcharge prison-education funds from the Board of Regents to the Department of Corrections, require inmates to repay 50% of certain education costs after release, and earmark funds for vocational training; the measure drew extended debate and was circled for later consideration.
The Utah House spent an extended period debating second substitute House Bill 100, a measure that would transfer telephone-surcharge funding used for inmate postsecondary education from the State Board of Regents to the Utah Department of Corrections and change payment and oversight rules for that programming.
Representative Carl Wimmer, the bill’s sponsor, said the change would let Corrections better target vocational and applied-technology training for inmates and eliminate a fiscal note that previously blocked the bill. "We're taking that money ... and give it back to the Utah Department of Corrections to be earmarked for prison education," he said, and described a plan requiring inmates to…
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