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Parolee crimes lower under program
By The Wichita Eagle
Published: 03/10/2008

KANSAS - A dramatic change in the way the state deals with parolees has resulted in a significant decrease in the number of crimes those parolees commit, Secretary of Corrections Roger Werholtz said.

In the late 1990s, when parole officers typically relied on threats to control a parolee's behavior, an annual average of 835 parolees were returned to Kansas prisons for committing new crimes, Werholtz said. Read more.

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