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Overburdened parole system failing to meet minimum monitoriing requirements: Audit blames old computers

This blog frequently discusses how Texas' full jails, overcrowded prisons and high caseloads for probation officers make it difficult to closely oversee offenders, moderate rising costs, and focus on rehabilitation. In the parole system, too, they're singing a familiar song: Too many parolees under supervision by too few officers.The Fort Worth Star Telegram brings word of a new state auditor's report detailing how an oveburdened parole systems struggles to monitor ex-prisoners under its charge ("Survey reveals flaws in parole system; officers blame computer system," June 21):In a survey, auditors found that for 55 percent of offenders, parole officers scheduled drugs tests one to three months later than required by state regulations.In 12 percent of the cases reviewed, parole officers did not make all of the required monthly contacts with parolees...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on June 21, 2008 (boomark / email).