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| Budget cuts could end parole |
| By The Wichita Eagle |
| Published: 01/28/2009 |
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KANSAS - The head of the Kansas Department of Corrections told employees Tuesday that proposed budget cuts could force the department to stop supervising the state's 5,800 parolees beginning April 1. The cuts also could mean closing the Winfield and Norton prisons, and ending treatment programs for inmates and parolees. "None of these possible reduction areas are desirable, and all of them could make Kansas less safe," Corrections Secretary Roger Werholtz said in a memo to parole services employees and to staff at the Norton and Winfield prisons. "With all treatment and intervention programs closed and parole and post release supervision eliminated, how would offenders be reintroduced to the community in a way so that future victimization is kept as low as possible?" Werholtz asked in the memo. The possible actions, which would trigger hundreds of layoffs of corrections workers, would be unprecedented, Department of Corrections spokesman Bill Miskell said Tuesday. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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