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This week on "The State of Ohio": State lawmakers consider what they can do in the wake of the horrible and yet miraculous escape story out of Cleveland involving three women held prisoner in a house for a decade. New data shows more than half of all violent crimes are committed by a very small numbers of offenders. Lawmakers are now working to target that tiny group. And more thoughts on legislation that would dramatically change rules on unions in Ohio.
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| Ohio Prisons Hit By Budget Cuts. |
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By Bill Cohen - March 29, 2001 |
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Ohio Prisons are about to feel the impact of the latest round of spending cuts ordered by Governor Taft. In December, Taft ordered state agencies to cut spending by 2-4%. And now he's ordering them to cut their spending again by 4% during April, May and June.
Joe Andrews of the state correctional department tells Statehouse correspondent Bill Cohen that the double hit will mean fewer people working at the prisons. It's not a matter of layoffs, but instead, attrition, job vacancies going unfilled. |
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Bill Cohen reports (1:36) 
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| That was Joe Andrews of the state correctional department. It and other state agencies are being ordered to cut spending for the second time in four months. It's an effort to plug a shortfall in the state budget, caused by tax revenues that are coming in below projections. |
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