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Whitmire: Save hundreds of millions by giving credit for time supervised on parole

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Senate Criminal Justice Committee Chairman John Whitmire has a bill up today in his committee, SB 883, that would save the state hundreds of millions of dollars over the next several years.The bill would give parolees "time credit for the period of time spent on parole ... till the time of noncompliance, regardless of the amount of time spent on conditional release." In other words, if an inmate is paroled with ten years, gets through nine of them successfully, then is revoked in the tenth, under current law that person goes back to prison for the full ten years. Whitmire's bill would give credit for the time spent on supervision prior to being revoked.According to the fiscal note, the bill would save $673.5 million over the next five years from reduced incarceration costs (even more in the out years), but Whitmire said savings wasn't his primary motivation...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on March 29, 2011 (boomark / email).