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NV: "Centers" proposed for parole violaters and people with drug & alcohol convictions

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Centers proposed for low-risk offenders By RACHELLE GINES Associated Press Writer 04/13/2009 CARSON CITY, Nev.?The Nevada Senate's top Democrat told lawmakers Monday that a new program for low-risk parole violators and drug and alcohol offenders would reduce the state's prison population and save millions of dollars in taxpayer money. Senate Majority Leader Steven Horsford, D-North Las Vegas, told Finance Committee members that SB398 would create a two-year pilot program of "intermediate sanction" centers for low-risk probation violators as well as people whose crimes are linked to alcohol or drug addictions. Life skill and rehabilitative programs would be offered to about 400 participants a year, who would stay an average of six months...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on April 14, 2009 (boomark / email).