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New Tack on Straying Parolees Offers a Hand Instead of Cuffs

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

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May 17, 2008 NY Times New Tack on Straying Parolees Offers a Hand Instead of Cuffs By ERIK ECKHOLM WICHITA, Kan. ? Since his release in January after serving time for a 2006 theft conviction, Lonnie Kemp has violated his parole conditions several times, getting drunk and kicked out of a halfway house and showing traces of marijuana in urine tests. If this were a few years ago, he almost certainly would be back in prison. Similar parole violations after a previous theft conviction, in 1988, had repeatedly landed him back inside. In those days, parole was enforced with a spirit that officials recall, only half-jokingly, as ?trail ?em, nail ?em, jail ?em,? overfilling the prisons but doing little to rehabilitate offenders. Today, Kansas is a leader in a spreading national effort to make parole more effective and useful ? to reduce violations and reincarcerations as it protects the public and seeks to help more offenders go straight...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on May 17, 2008 (boomark / email).

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