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| Last Inmates Graduate From CO Camp |
| By denverpost.com |
| Published: 05/28/2010 |
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The last graduating class from a military-style prison boot camp in Buena Vista received certificates Thursday, ending a program that failed to meet expectations and became too costly to run. If Thursday's class of 23 follows the record of previous graduates, 12 of them will commit new crimes within three years of their release. Although given big rewards — including shorter prison sentences — 51 percent of the 155 inmates released from prison through boot camp in fiscal year 2007 have already returned to prison. The 51 percent recidivism rate of these nonviolent offenders was only 2 percentage points better than the record of inmates convicted of crimes such as robbery and murder. Read More. |
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