Cuts' impacts - Ketchikan Daily

The Ketchikan Regional Youth Facility closed this week, an event that brought lay-off notices to 15 employees and the end of a local secure detention for youth in southern Southeast Alaska. On Thursday, Alaska’s Department of Corrections announced that it’s raising — by 46 percent — how much it charges the municipality of Anchorage to house prisoners. Also Thursday, University of Alaska President Jim Johnsen outline a proposed budget that included yet another tuition increase, this time a hike of 10 percent, in addition to reductions to a number of academic and athletic programs. http://www.ketchikandailynews.com/free/local-edit-9-17