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CA: Program for parolees ends

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

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Parolee re-entry program to end By Lanz Christian Bañes Contra-Costa Times-Herald Posted: 06/28/2009 Solano County's parolee re-entry program will cease operations Wednesday. "It's completely over with," said Tony Pearsall, executive director of Fighting Back Partnership, which runs the program. Founded three years ago on a $600,000 state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation grant, the parolee re-entry program provided skills training, case management and support for about 900 parolees released into Solano County. The program has since depleted the funding and has been unable to obtain more -- despite Fighting Back Partnership's contention that the program saves the state money by keeping parolees from re-offending and returning to prison...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on June 30, 2009 (boomark / email).

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