Tuesday, January 04, 2011
KY Prison Recidivism Rate Down
KENTUCKY....
Kentucky currently spends $447 million on prison corrections annually. New data from the Department of Corrections shows 29.5 percent of inmates released in 2008 have been returned to prison, either for new felony offenses or parole violations. That two-year recidivism rate is the lowest since 2000, when the state posted a 28.9 percent rate. Corrections Commissioner LaDonna Thompson says a study showed that, between 2007 and 2009, the number of parolees returned to prison for technical violations went down about 25 percent. She says changes in probation and parole, alternative sentencing, including home incarceration and drug courts and mental-health courts, and state funding for substance-abuse treatment may have contributed to the reduction, saving taxpayers money.
Kentucky currently spends $447 million on prison corrections annually. New data from the Department of Corrections shows 29.5 percent of inmates released in 2008 have been returned to prison, either for new felony offenses or parole violations. That two-year recidivism rate is the lowest since 2000, when the state posted a 28.9 percent rate. Corrections Commissioner LaDonna Thompson says a study showed that, between 2007 and 2009, the number of parolees returned to prison for technical violations went down about 25 percent. She says changes in probation and parole, alternative sentencing, including home incarceration and drug courts and mental-health courts, and state funding for substance-abuse treatment may have contributed to the reduction, saving taxpayers money.
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