By Jeff Amy Associated Press JACKSON – If you’ve got to keep paying for something, you might as well use it. That, more than anything, might be the logic behind the announcement from Mississippi Corrections Commissioner Marshall Fisher last week that the state prison system intends to seek new uses for the recently closed Walnut Grove Correctional Facility. Fisher said last week saying the department is considering using the 1,500-bed facility as an alternative to prison, as a facility to house prisoners after parole violations, or to help prisoners prepare to re-enter society. Mississippi was already awash in prison beds, and the surplus got larger after lawmakers in 2014 cut prison sentences to reduce the number of state inmates.