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Wyoming Department of Corrections asks appropriators for $41.8M in exceptions, warns of high out-of-state housing and IT risks
Summary
Director Dan Shannon told the Joint Appropriations Committee DOC seeks $41.8 million in exception requests (mostly one-time) including $9.3M for out-of-facility housing, $12.25M to replace legacy offender-management systems, and multiple inflation and medical and commissary increases; Shannon said out-of-state housing cost the state about $15M (biennium) and cited a per-diem comparison of roughly $122/day vs. negotiated $75/day.
Dan Shannon, director of the Wyoming Department of Corrections, outlined the department's budget reorganization and a set of 13 exception requests that together total $41,837,634 in requested dollars for the upcoming biennium.
Shannon told the Joint Appropriations Committee the requests include $9,312,374 in one-time funding to cover out-of-facility housing costs incurred when DOC relocated inmates (including placements in Mississippi) because of staffing vacancies. "In November '23, this department relocated inmates to Wyoming county jails and a prison in Mississippi as a result of staff vacancies," Shannon said. He told the committee that the department has returned 112 inmates and still has about 128 remaining out of state.
On costs, Shannon said the department paid roughly $15 million in out-of-state housing for the…
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