Parole overhaul scrapped (Gov Grope gum-up)

[Rose Siding]

The Schwarzenegger administration junked the core of its parole overhaul plan Monday, discarding electronic monitoring and halfway houses as untested and possibly dangerous alternatives to reincarceration.
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The administration came under fire Monday from groups that said the alternative sanctions had been bungled from the start.

They said drug treatment and "halfway back" beds were never fully funded, that the electronic monitoring program was delayed by contract disagreements and that all three programs served a woefully inadequate number of offenders to be truly effective.

Dan Macallair, executive director of the Center on Criminal and Juvenile Justice in San Francisco, said the retreat signals that meaningful changes in the parole system - key to cutting the state's 162,000 prison population and, ultimately, costs in the $7 billion correctional system - have been all but shelved.

"So far, most of the Schwarzenegger administration's reform efforts have been rhetoric, not reality," Macallair said. "I don't know where they will go from here. I don't want to say correction reform in California is dead. But it's dying."

http://www.sacbee.com/content/politics/story/12713557p-13565931c.html

[dArKeR]

1. Why isn't Ah-no investigated as they did Michael Jackson?

If the DA spent the same money investigating Ah-no as they have MJ, I'm SURE we'd find Ah-no has groped and had sex with minors. Could it be one is a Republican and the other is a black Democrat?

Ah-no has admitted groping girls.