The Nation : Seized Drug Assets to Be Used on Prisons
Atty. Gen. Dick Thornburgh unveiled a plan to use $229 million seized from drug traffickers and organized crime rings for construction of more than 3,000 federal prison cells. Thornburgh, in a speech to U.S. attorneys in San Antonio, described the money transfer to the Federal Bureau of Prisons as a “down payment” on President Bush’s $1.5-billion proposed prison expansion. Justice Department agencies have seized property worth more than $1 billion since October, 1988, and more than $500 million in forfeited and liquidated criminal property has been placed in the Asset Forfeiture Fund, Thornburgh said.
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