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North Carolina Probation Officers "Botched" Cases That Led to Murder: Paper

By David Badertscher, PLL

Source:Crime and Justice News, December 5, 2008. "North Carolina's probation system, designed to help low-level offenders rebuild their lives and stay out of costly prisons, risks public safety by neglecting or losing track of thousands of criminals, reports the Raleigh News & Observer. Since the start of 2000, 580 people have killed in the state while on probation, 17 percent of all convictions for intentional killings. Documents and interviews show that probation officers -- poorly pa read more

Full post as published by New York Supreme Court Criminal Term Library on December 09, 2008 (boomark / email).