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State sets deadline for probation fixes

By "eAdvocate"

12-20-2009 Ohio:State prison officials have given the Hamilton County Probation Department six months to fix the division that handles the worst convicts, or it will no longer pay for the program.That deadline comes after the state reprimanded the department in the fall when studies showed Hamilton County's intensive probation program was so ineffective that convicts in it are more likely to commit crimes than others convicted of similar crimes who were never supervised.Hamilton County's 29 percent success rate was the worst of any urban county in the state - despite getting the largest chuck of cash, those studies showed.Prison officials told the department to shape up or they would take away the $1.7 million they give the Hamilton County Common Pleas Court for the program designed to keep people out of prison...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Offender Issues, News, Recidivism and Studies on December 21, 2009 (boomark / email).