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| Early release makes room for other inmates |
| By Times Daily |
| Published: 11/27/2007 |
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ALABAMA - Bryce Graham Jr. gets frustrated when someone is convicted of a crime and sentenced to a lengthy prison term only to return home a few months later. "It makes me mad when it happens, but there's nothing I can do," said Graham, the district attorney for Colbert County. "The reason for so many people getting sent home on parole after serving just a few months of a sentence that was supposed to last for several years is very simple. There's just not any place to keep them locked up." Brian Corbett, a spokesman for the Alabama Department of Corrections, said the state has 24,622 convicts locked up in prisons designed to hold 12,682 inmates. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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