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CA launches plan to cut prison population on reducting the number of parole violators sent back to prison

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

California launches plan to cut prison population As cost-saving measures, the number of parole violators returned behind bars will be cut and low-risk offenders will not be regularly supervised by a parole agent By Patrick McGreevy January 26, 2010 Reporting from Sacramento Quantcast State prison authorities Monday began reducing the number of parole violators sent back behind bars and offering inmates more opportunity to shorten their sentences, as part of a plan to decrease the prison population by 6,500 inmates over the next year. Low-risk offenders, including those convicted of nonviolent crimes, will not have regular supervision by a parole agent. And they will no longer be returned to prison for technical violations such as alcohol use, missed drug tests or failure to notify the state of an address change...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on January 26, 2010 (boomark / email).