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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 12, 2003
Page
8
Sunflower Piecemakers will meet at 7 p.m. Monday at Westminster Presbyterian Church with Charlotte Herr from central Kansas lecturing on Confessions of a Lazy Quilter and a trunk show of her quilts. Dayne and quilters are invited. information at 242-1922.
Tuesday entries show dismissals in divorce and protection from abuse actions. Franklin County Jail booked Russell Mundy for a court commit. Police reports include Culver, Moland, and Vela facing municipal warrants, theft, and forgery charges with bond details.
Hutchinson Correctional Facility faces severe overcrowding with 54 inmates over capacity and dormitory living in the minimum unit. Kansas houses 8,893 inmates now, with El Dorado and others near or over capacity. by June capacity could reach 9,016. Options include two new El Dorado cellblocks at 14.4 million dollars and 7.2 million yearly operating costs, or shifting nonviolent offenders to community treatment and shortening sentences. Lawmakers debate drug treatment versus building more prisons, with skepticism about expanding prison space without stronger policies.
The Senate Education Committee heard testimony on a bill letting illegal immigrants pay in-state tuition at Kansas public colleges and technical schools after three years of schooling in state. Opponents argue it rewards crime while supporters say it builds a more educated workforce.
Health Midwest and Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline discuss a tentative settlement over Health Midwest's sale to HCA Inc. The plan would create a Kansas foundation holding 20 percent of net proceeds, potentially up to 700 million, with broad board representation and grants focused on indigent health care.
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