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California's Parole-Violator Cell-Study Education Program Portends Increase In Recidivism
Loaded on June 15, 2005
published in Prison Legal News
June, 2005, page 16
California's Parole-Violator Cell-Study Education Program Portends Increase In Recidivism
Filed under:
Overcrowding,
Education,
Rehabilitation/Recidivism,
Sentencing,
Parole.
Location:
California.
by Marvin Mentor
A well-intentioned but struggling new rehabilitative in-cell, tutored, self study program for California parole violators (Bridging Program), participation in which cuts five days per month off eligible violators' return-to-custody time, is having the anomalous effect of increasing the ...
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