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B-118638 1 (1973-03-07)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaaeeg0001 and id is 1 raw text is: RESTMCT9D- Not to rk COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON L C 20548 B-118638 MAR 7 1913 The Honorable Birch Bayh, Chairman Subcommittee on the District of Columbia Committee on Appropriations United States Senate Dear Mr. Chairman. In a letter dated July 27, 1972, Senator Daniel K. Inouye, your predecessor, requested that we assist the Subcom- mittee in determining (1) what additional personnel the De- partment of Corrections, District of Columbia Government, will need to staff the new correctional facilities planned for construction at Lorton, Virginia, and (2) what effect the new facilities will have on the personnel requirements of other District-operated detention facilities. Your office later agreed that, because the proposed construction at Lorton has been delayed and because the District did not plan to request funds to staff new facilities in fiscal year 1974, we should not examine personnel requirements at this time but should report on our review of estimates of future inmate population at Lorton and the need for additional facilities. The District's estimate of future inmate population at Lorton, used in the appropriation hearings to 3ustify the construction program, was overstated and the anticipated in- creases in the number of inmates have not materialized. We believe, therefore, that not all the proposed facilities may be needed at this time. When we advised the Commissioner of the District of Co- lumbia of our questions concerning the reasonableness of the estimates of future inmate population, he suspended plans to award contracts for constructing new facilities at Lorton un- til a supportable estimate was developed. LORTON EXPANSION PROGRAM The existing detention facilities at Lorton include a correctional complex, a minimum security unit, and two youth

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