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KS: To gauge parole, Kansas courts soon will use statistical tool pioneered in Johnson County

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

To gauge offenders? parole, Kansas courts soon will use statistical tool pioneered in Johnson County By JOE LAMBE The Kansas City Star December 6, 2010 Ted Kim of Lenexa was busted for drugs last year but deserved a break. Statistics said so. Forget the old gut feeling of a judge or probation officer. Kim?s answers to 54 questions got him a far more limited probation than the long hours of programs he could have faced. He scored ?very low risk? on a statistical tool that predicts how likely an offender is to fail probation or parole. Putting such people in highly intense programs can actually make them more likely to become criminals, experts say. For six years, Johnson County District Court has been a pilot project ? the only Kansas district to test the statistical tool called Level of Service Inventory Revised...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on December 09, 2010 (boomark / email).