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Parole Policies Weak Link in Prison Reduction Plans

By Jonathan Simor

Danielle Cervantes and Jeff McDonald of the San Diego Union Tribune report on the growing criticism from parole agents and others, that California parolees are being allowed to violate the conditions of parole without consequences and dangerous offenders who could be locked up again are being left on the streets until they commit a really heinous crime. They also include some really neat charts that show how much parole revocations (the administrative process by which a California parolee can be returned to prison for up to a year for violating the conditions of parole) and ominously, that the prison population has pushed back up, after a couple of years of falling after 2005.California's current plans to comply with the federal court order to reduce the population by at least forty-thousand inmates depends heavily on "parole reform...continue to full post

Full post as published by Governing Through Crime on March 23, 2010 (boomark / email).