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CT: Prison Life 'After Cheshire' Suspicions increase, parole opportunities decrease and understanding is stalled

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Prison Life 'After Cheshire' Suspicions increase, parole opportunities decrease and understanding is stalled Published on 8/2/2009 in The Day By Chandra A. Bozelko Cheshire changed us. The July 23, 2007, murders of Jennifer, Hayley and Michaela Petit in Cheshire, allegedly by parolees Steven Hayes and Joshua Komisarjevsky, recently reached its second anniversary, our yearly reminder to check the locks and set the alarm. As a prison inmate in Connecticut, I often hear about Cheshire. Almost all discussion of our sentences include the phrase ?after Cheshire.? After Cheshire a national media spotlight intensified on a small Connecticut town and the state's Department of Corrections, provoking questions surrounding three p-words we use when we talk about letting someone out of jail: punishment, parole and propensity to re-offend...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on August 03, 2009 (boomark / email).