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What's just right in Kansas...

By Douglas A. Berman

Proving yet again that the states are way ahead of the feds in figuring out how to do sentencing and corrections, this local article reports encouraging news from everyone's favorite bellwether state:The percentage of Kansas inmates who commit new crimes while on supervised release has dropped significantly over five years. The rate, which was a little more than 5 percent in 2002, fell to 2.2 percent last year, Corrections Secretary Roger Werholtz told lawmakers Monday.  He attributed the reduction to increased legislative funding for programs that supervise inmates after they leave prison, and more dollars for alcohol and drug treatment. Werholtz said that with fewer offenders returning to prison, the number of inmates in Kansas prisons has decreased from 9,153 in 2004 to 8,854 in mid-2007...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on February 05, 2008 (boomark / email).