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PEW Public Safety Report: Prisoncrats Abuse Their Probation/Parole Violation Powers So As To Stymie Offenders’ Re-entry Into Society
Loaded on July 15, 2008
by Marvin Mentor
published in Prison Legal News
July, 2008, page 15
Filed under:
Reviews,
Statistics/Trends,
Conditions of Confinement,
Overcrowding,
Parole,
Probation.
Location:
United States of America.
A November 2007 national study by the PEW Public Safety Performance Project concluded that the policy of returning parolees and probationers to custody for other than new offenses has the perverse effect of frustrating their reentry into society and their emancipation from the criminal justice system. This result is not ...
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- Arkansas Law Discloses Legislators’ Business Ties to State, by David Reutter
- From the Editor, by Paul Wright
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- Corruption in Orange County, CA Sheriff’s Department Revealed; Sheriff Resigns, Convicted on Criminal Charges, Feb. 15, 2009
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