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HOUSTON DAILY JOURNAL
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Perry Office
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Parry, GA 31069
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State Briefs
Prison population
over capacity
ATLANTA! AP)-Georgia’s
prison population, which
had been near capacity for
the past few years, is now 7
percent over capacity.
The state prison popula
tion, which had been just
under 50,000, has climbed
to more than 53,000, offi
cials with the Georgia
Department of Corrections
told members of the correc
tions board Thursday.
About 23,000 new inmates
enter the prison system
each year, while only about
18,000 are released. That
causes a net gain of 5,000
inmates a year, according to
Department of Corrections
data. Several factors have
contributed to the growth,
including a tough two
strikes law for violent felons
approved by Georgia vot
ers in a 1994 constitutional
amendment and tougher
parole board policies.
But two more recent fac
tors have also helped fuel
this year’s increase.
Methamphetamine use,
and the accompanying
crime, have helped pack pris
ons. Corrections’. Assistant
Commissioner Brian Owens
noted that 250 to 300 people
are going to prison every
month on methamphet
amine-related charges. In
addition to charges of pos
sessing, manufacturing and
distributing meth, many peo
ple are burglarizing homes
and businesses, shoplifting
and stealing to support their
drug habit, he said.
Five years ago, only about
50 people a month were
entering the prison system
on meth charges, Owens
said.
In addition the meth
use, the Department of
Corrections also aggressive
ly moved this year to move
inmates already convicted
from county jails into the
state prison system. Local
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National Cities
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sheriffs have long grumbled
that the Department of
Corrections has been slow
to pick up inmates once they
are sentenced to prison.
Owens estimated the prison
system moved about 3,000
inmates from jails into pris
ons.
Baldwin County Sheriff
Bill Massee, a Corrections
board member, said the com
bination of so many factors
is creating a “perfect storm”
for a crisis. Prison crowding
can cause tempers to flare,
sanitary problems and ill
nesses to spread more quick
ly. The state could also face
lawsuits if it does not control
the inmate population.
In the past few months,
the state has had to convert
some open rooms in pris
ons into dormitories. At one
prison, it will begin convert
ing single beds into bunk
beds.
Georgia’s prison system
is the fifth largest in the
nation and costs slightly
more than $1 billion to oper
ate. The prison system has
asked for about SSO million
more in its fiscal year 2008
budget, which begins July 1,
according to House budget
analysts.
Man to pony up for
animal cruelty
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Dublin 63 34 mst sunny
Duluth 57 31 pt sunny
Gainesville 56 35 pt sunny
Helen 58 31 pt sunny
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Macon 62 34 pt sunny
Marietta 57 31 pt sunny
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Los Angeles 65 47 rain
Miami 77 67 rain
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Glynn County man charged
with five counts of animal
cruelty lost custody of six
underfed horses and 17 hogs
that were already seized, as
well as an unknown number
of chickens and ducks that
are still running loose on his
property.
State Court Judge Orion
Douglass released Lewis
Carroll, of West Fancy Bluff
Road, on his own recogni
zance Thursday and ordered
him to pay about $4,500 in
combined bills for veterinary
care and transporting, feed
ing and boarding the seized
animals. He also forbade
Carroll from having any ani
mals on his property.
“You are not to have any
animals on your property or
in your custody at all. That
includes even goldfish,”
Douglass said.
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Rome 57 32 pt sunny
Savannah 66 41 pt sunny
St. Simons Island 64 51 pt sunny
Statesboro 66 37 mst sunny
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Valdosta 68 45 pt sunny
Warner Robins 62 35 pt sunny
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Obituaries
TOMMIE N. HUNT
PERRY - Tommie N. Hunt, 92, died Thursday. Graveside
services will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday at Evergreen
Cemetery. The family will receive friends at 1403 Main
Street. Hunt, daughter of the late George A. and Nettie
Stephens Nelson, had lived most of her life in Perry and
was the widow of the late Tommie S. Hunt. She worked 30
years with the Perry Public Library and served as assistant
librarian and acting librarian. She also worked at the Clerk
of Superior Court Office for 10 years. A member of the Perry
First Baptist Church, she was in the Ruth Sunday School
Class. She was also a member of the Delphian Club, the
Wednesday Afternoon Book Club and a Sewing Club.
Survivors include her children; Nelson Hunt of Smyrna
and Abbie Sue Ginn of Perry; grandchildren, Jeff Hunt, Judi
Hunt, John Franklin Gibb, Bryan Conner, and David Ginn;
great grandchildren, Amelia Rogers, Will Conner and Sam
Conner. She was preceded in death by two children; Ann
Storey and Navelle Hunt. The family requests contributions
to the Perry Houston County Library or the Perry First
Baptist Church. Please sign the online register at watson
hunt.com.
Forecaster calls for busy
hurricane season in 2007
FORT COLLINS, Colo.
(AP) - The 2007 Atlantic hur
ricane season should have
above-average activity, with
three major hurricanes and
a good chance at least one
of them will make landfall,
a top hurricane researcher
said Friday.
Colorado State forecaster
William Gray predicted 14
named storms and a total of
seven hurricanes next year.
He and fellow researcher
Philip Klotzbach said there
is a 64 percent chance of one
of the major hurricanes _
with sustained winds of 111
mph or greater _ coming
ashore. The long-term aver
age probability is 52 percent,
they said. Still, they said
fewer hurricanes are likely
to make landfall next year
than in the devastating 2005
season, which had 28 named
storms, including 15 hurri
canes, four of which hit the
U.S. The worst was Katrina,
which leveled parts of the
Gulf Coast.
The 2006 season had nine
named storms and five hur
ricanes, two of them major.
That was considered a “near
normal” season but fell short
of predictions by Gray and
government scientists. None
hit the U.S. Atlantic coast _
only the 11th time that has
occurred since 1945.
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Gray and Klotzbach said
last month that a surprise
late El Nino contribut
ed to the calmer June-to-
November hurricane season
this year.
El Nino - a warming in
the Pacific Ocean - has far
reaching effects that include
changing wind patterns in
the eastern Atlantic, which
can disrupt the formation of
hurricanes there, Gray said.
Gray’s team said Friday
those conditions are likely to
dissipate before the next sea
son but Klotzbach cautioned,
“this is an early prediction.”
Gray said he believes the
Atlantic basin is in an active
hurricane cycle, despite the
calm 2006 season.
“This active cycle is expect
ed to continue for another
decade or two at which time
we should enter a quieter
Atlantic major hurricane
period like we experienced
during the quarter-century
periods of 1970-1994 and
1901-1925,” he said.
Tropical Storm Risk, a
London-based consortium
of weather, insurance and
risk-management experts,
on Thursday forecast an
active 2007 season, with up
to 16 tropical storms includ
ing nine hurricanes, four of
them intense.
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