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| S.C. Attorney General: Abolish parole |
| By The Associated Press |
| Published: 04/03/2008 |
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SOUTH CAROLINA - A bill to abolish parole in South Carolina would give the public more confidence in the justice system, save money and wouldn't cause a big increase in the number of inmates, state Attorney General Henry McMaster told a House subcommittee Wednesday afternoon. "By abolishing parole, contrary to some people's opinions that the prison population would skyrocket, it has done that nowhere that it has been done before, not even in the federal prison system that abolished parole for all crimes in 1987," he said. McMaster pointed out that South Carolina already abolished parole for most violent crimes in 1996. The growth in prison population from 1984 to 1995 was 6.9 percent. From 1996 to 2007, it was 1.8 percent. An important part of the bill is setting up "middle courts" that would create an alternative between probation and prison, McMaster said. That would keep many non-violent first offenders out of prison, sending them instead to drug or alcohol treatment and/or work release programs. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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