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NY: Parole ---"Truth in Numbers"

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

By contrast, 1.6 percent of A1 felons who were paroled from 1999 through 2003 were returned to prison for committing a crime within three years. And something else changed has well -- the number of violent felons paroled increased from 12 percent in 2006 to 18 percent in 2007. That makes the zero recidivism rate even more remarkable. Times Union Albany, NY Editorial First published: Monday, March 31, 2008 Truth in numbers Were New Yorkers put at risk when parole rates for violent offenders increased under former Gov. Eliot Spitzer? Until last week, the answer was still a cause for debate. Republican critics insisted that Mr. Spitzer, a Democrat, was placing the public in peril as more and more offenders were released back into society, where they might well return to their criminal ways...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on March 31, 2008 (boomark / email).