1. As a result, courts in many areas are clogged, county jails are overcrowded and nonviolent inmates are being released early. 2. After the debate Bond told reporters any decisions on releasing inmates were based on recommendations by the state probation and parole board. 3. But nearly all inmates will be released eventually. 4. By working with the higher limit, administrators would have to make fewer choices about which inmates to release, Stegall said. 5. Currently, the state parole board decides when an inmate can be released under parole supervision. 6. Inmates were often released after only a fraction of the time had been served. 7. Neither inmate was released. 8. One solution would release older inmates from prison and confine them to house arrest, where they would be monitored electronically. 9. Pinkerton had been hearing stories about the way Dukakis had released inmates on weekend furloughs. 10. Research showed, these scholars claimed, that neither education nor job training in prison had any effect on recidivism after inmates were released. |