California To Eliminate Key Parole Reform

[Kadie]

California To Eliminate Key Parole Reform

POSTED: 11:26 am PDT April 9, 2005
UPDATED: 11:52 am PDT April 9, 2005

SACRAMENTO -- Corrections officials, scrapping a key reform of California's troubled parole system, will no longer let parole violators receive drug treatment or home detention as an alternative to prison, it was reported Saturday.

Authorities decided to end such diversion programs and return violators to prison starting Monday because there was no evidence the lesser sanctions work.

The policy was pushed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's administration as a way to rehabilitate ex-convicts and to save money by reducing the prison population.

But the approach drew criticism from crime victim advocates and parole agents who said they were being pressured to let dangerous parole violators avoid prison.

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[rodeodance]

1. it is all part of the 'lock em up' mentality of this country!!11