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NJ: New state initiative seeks to reduce prison overcrowding

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

New state initiative seeks to reduce prison overcrowding by Chris Megerian/The Star-Ledger May 10, 2009 After five months in prison for dealing drugs, Nashon James was going straight. He cut hair at his mother's barbershop, tried making money on eBay and even joined a bowling league. But James' past caught up with him. After smoking pot with friends on New Year's Eve, he said he began using cocaine and within months was struggling with a full-blown addiction. "I just came to a hump in the road that I couldn't get over," said James, 29, of Ridgefield Park. After breaking his parole by failing a drug test, James is back in a cell. But he's not in prison. Along with a few dozen New Jersey parole violators, James is locked up in a special program intended to divert low-risk parolees away from jail and back into society...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on May 13, 2009 (boomark / email).