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3 JAN 1 3 ST. LOUIS PUST-DISPATCH THURSDAY, JANUARY 13, 1994 STATE OF THE STATE Carnahan Carnahan Wants 2 More Prisons Missouri's Budget Dollar Governor Plans To Target Crime In Next Budget Individual income tax Elementary and secondary education Qs ro as if (t-Tf-l'l llf 111 -l If 5 1 Human services Ills I 1 a Ji Sleatax c' i.Jm -6-J rvnfti.l?.- jrm. l-l A i xj these programs have not come back into our system." Carnahan's proposal for two new prisons stems from two factors: more inmates entering the system and the loss of the Renz Correctional Center, a women's prison near Jefferson City ravaged by last year's Missouri River flooding. Stanley Brown, deputy director in the Department of Corrections, said the number of inmates has tripled in the last decade. There are 16,381 people in prison or on house arrest and in honor centers now.

A state consultant, Sverdrup Corp. of St. Louis, will recommend what size and type of prisons Missouri should build. The findings are expected to be released later this month. Rep.

Sue Shear, D-Clayton, said that while the state must replace Renz, no case has been made for a second prison. "I hate the idea of building new prisons, because they just fill them up and it doesn't lessen the crime on the streets at all," Shear said. She favors more community-based programs for nonviolent offenders. Sen. Steve Danner, D-Hale, wants the state to buy the campus of the former Tarkio College in far northern Missouri.

He said the campus, for sale for $1.5 million, would be perfect for a boot camp or drug center for inmates. 'i Rep. Charles "Quincy" Troupe, D-St. Louis, said the state needs a new high-security prison for young inmates. "Many of the kids that are certified as adults never go to jail because the judges don't want to remand them to adult institutions, where they would be raped and ravaged and just be playmates for the older inmates." Carnahan would relieve some of the pressure on the prison system by using the Buchanan Building at St.

Joseph State Hospital as a minimum-security prison for inmates with drug problems. Since summer, the building has housed inmates on work-release doing flood cleanup. The governor also would contract with a business to operate a boot camp for young offenders. The budget earmarks $730,000 for that. Brown said the camp would handle 50 inmates and cost about $40 a day per inmate.

Overall, Carnahan's budget gives the Department of Corrections a 9 percent budget increase and 326 new workers, mostly prison guards or probationparole officers. By Virginia Young Post-Dispatch Jefferson City Bureau JEFFERSON CITY Gov. Mel Carnahan called Wednesday for two new prisons, which he said would send a clear message to chronic offenders: "If you've done the crime, in this state you will do the time." Carnahan also wants to build six facilities for juvenile offenders and an inmate honor center in Kansas City. The projects would cost $119 million and would be financed by a $250 million general obligation bond issue. In the shorter term, Carnahan would attack crime in the next budget by: Turning a building at the old St.

Joseph (Mo.) State Hospital into a 300-bed prison for drug abusers. Starting a boot camp for youthful offenders. Establishing a Major Case Unit in the State Highway Patrol to help police with criminal investigations. Col. Fred Mills, superintendent of the Highway Patrol, said the $177,484 unit would provide experts, such as accountants or computer-crime investigators, to police departments upon request.

James F. Conway, president of the St. Louis Police Board, listened to the speech from the House chamber's fourth-floor gallery. He said he liked everything Carnahan said about fighting crime: "One of our big problems is, when people are sent to Jefferson City and there's not enough room, they immediately have to release somebody." As for juvenile offenders, youths involved in serious crimes now serve an average of 5'2 months because of the lack of space, said Mark Steward, director of the state's Division of Youth Services. "We'd really like to double that to at least a year," he said.

St. Louis Juvenile Judge James J. Gallagher applauded in a telephone interview Carnahan's proposal to add 180 beds for juveniles. The state has 460 beds now and a typical waiting list of 50 to 60. More counseling, education and family therapy would be provided to juveniles in their first brush with the law.

Carnahan's budget earmarks $2.4 million to expand day-treatment programs for juvenile offenders. Steward said such programs are "extremely effective. Ninety-two percent of the kids who have gone through Desegregation Corporate income tax Corrections and public safety County foreign insurance tax SSI Judiciary and general assembly Corporate franchise tax All other From page one collective noses" at federal demands for tighter air pollution control. But when Carnahan delivered the next line "I ask you to join me in taking the more responsible course" i the Democrats applauded. Carnahan has complained that mandated expenses, from both feder-' al and state sources, are so high they consume almost all revenue in- creases from economic growth.

He said this leaves him with little discre-i tion for new or expanded services. For the fiscal year beginning July 1 1, he scraped together $393 million from the bond issue, the state lot-; tery, savings in general revenue and i from estimated income from river-i boat gambling, which is expected to start in the spring. Carnahan gave no date when the million bond issue would be submitted to a statewide vote. If authorized by the Legislature, it would require a simple majority for passage. The last'general obligation bond issue submitted to the people was in 1982, when $600 million was approved.

Since then, the state has relied on revenue bonds, which do not require a referendum. They are retired with revenue generated by the project constructed with the money, but in many cases this is really "rent" paid annually out of general revenue by the state for use of the buildings. Carnahan said he chose general obligation bonds because they are "a responsible, straight-up way to do it." Revenue bonds often are "accused of being sleight of hand or magic." Carnahan said he was confident "we can make our case to the people" for passage of the general obligation bonds. He said Missouri had low debt compared with other states. The budget office released Wednesday a state debt figure of $1.2 billion but acknowledged that this was only a partial count of bonds issued by all state agencies.

Carnahan said elementary and secondary education received the benefit of his $315 million income tax increase last year, and this year he gave emphasis to the backlog of needs in higher education. On the list of new buildings, the University of Missouri at St. Louis is scheduled to get $16 million from the bond issue. Harris-Stowe State College would get $1.6 million. The new prisons would include a replacement for Renz correctional center in Jefferson City, which was destroyed by last year's flood; a new prison of undetermined size at an All other sources Edgar Seeks Ban On Assault Weapons Tom BorgmanPost-Dispatch libraries.

$800,000 for expanded family planning. $1.4 million for day care for low-income families. $2 million to compensate crime victims. $750,000 for student college grants and $450,000 for college scholarships. $4 million to recruit faculty and researchers at the University of Missouri.

Senate Minority Leader Franc Flo-tron, R-Creve Coeur, said he opposed the bond issue. "It's very important not to spend our children's money, and that we learn to live within our means," he said. House Minority Leader Pat Kelley, R-Lee's Summit, said he was suspicious about Carnahan's plans for more government control over health care and that he believed Carnahan's welfare revisions would produce "just more government spending with little to show for it." warnahan gave no date when the $250 million bond issue would be submitted to a statewide vote. unspecified site; a replacement for the Kansas City honor center; and six juvenile detention centers with a total of 180 beds. Carnahan said his reason for supporting new prisons was not that he expects tougher sentencing in his anti-crime package to increase the prison population.

He said the prison population has been increasing by 600 a year without tougher sentences. The state's total prison population is now about 16,400. Other increased expenditures recommended by Carnahan were: $2.3 million for operation expenses in prisons. $300,000 to help elderly and disabled people live independently. $1 million for improved college By Tim Novak, Patrick E.

Gauen and Marcel Pacatte Of the Post-Dispatch Staff SPRINGFIELD, 111. Laying the foundation for his reelection campaign, Gov. Jim Edgar used his State of the State address Wednesday to call for a crackdown on crime and reform in education, welfare and health care. Edgar focused on new programs, many of which will need approval from Republicans as well as Democrats in the Legislature. And that may be difficult as Democrats work to defeat Edgar in November, hoping to end the Republican's 18-year reign in the governor's office.

Crime proposals dominated Edgar's speech just as they have the governor's race and the public's attention. Edgar asked the Legislature to ban the manufacture and possession of assault weapons, a proposal first made by Cook County Board President Richard Phelan, who is seeking the Democratic nomination for governor. Edgar said: "Some individuals should not have the right to possess firearms, and there are some weapons that no one should have the right to own. I am proposing we ban, not the weapons of hunting and sport for law-abiding citizens, but the weapons of slaughter and destruction used by criminals." Edgar's 11-point program on crime includes s'tiffer penalties for people who illegally possess handguns, a strike force to target "illegal gun merchants who profit from selling death," expansion of the state's eavesdropping laws and a boot camp for juveniles who commit nonviolent crimes. Edgar also said he would: Push for education reforms, including charter schools that are free of state rules and regulations, and possibly allowing private management of some public schools.

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