Programs such as HIV awareness, Alcoholic and Narcotics Anonymous, anger management, pre-employment training, clubs and intramural sports are eliminated in six institutions and significantly reduced in a seventh. Anthony Rozzell is serving time at OSP for breaking parole on a 1990 manslaughter charge. Like Miranda, he has been told that all activities programs are going to be cut starting June 30 under the governor's budgets. If they take away everything, there is nothing to lose. Right now, there is no idle time.
Idle time brings about trouble.
Mary Botkin has been the lobbyist for the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees for 20 years. She represents the people who work as corrections officers and recreation yard monitors and run the prison programs. Botkin says her people are worried, not only about their own jobs, but about keeping peace inside the institutions. I want to know how they're going to do that under this budget.