Kentucky released 939 inmates about six months early on Tuesday as part of a new program aimed at easing their transition back into the community, reducing recidivism and helping trim its corrections budget by about $40 million this year.
Lisa Lamb, a spokeswoman for the Department of Corrections, said it had heard of no problems by …
January 4, 2012 Tags: KY, news
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The longest, most exhaustively researched article I ever wrote for a newspaper or magazine was about a child molester who had sexually abused a little boy living down the street. The abuse went on for more than two years, beginning when the boy was 10.
This molester had a job. A house. A wife. Two kids …
November 8, 2011 Tags: commentary
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Give youth a chance to succeed by raising age (NC)
Too many of North Carolina’s youth are in deep trouble. They’ve made a mistake, committed a minor crime, and now must face the consequences. However, it is the consequences, not the crime itself, that pose the biggest danger – not only to our youth, but to all of us.
North Carolina is one of only two …
December 9, 2011 Tags: commentary, NC
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