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| Parole System Overwhelmed By Early Releases |
| By wmur.com |
| Published: 11/15/2010 |
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MANCHESTER, N.H. -- From check-ins at a local homeless shelter to a downtown rooming house, parole and probation officers out of the Manchester office are responsible for regular monitoring of a growing number of parolees. Each officer already handles 140-170 cases. Those numbers are increasing rapidly due to New Hampshire's new, controversial early release law known as SB500. Officers said the additions are taxing an already overloaded system. On a recent Thursday night, News 9 accompanied officers Gerard Legasse and Scott Christensen as they conducted their regular parolee check ins. The first stop was a meeting with Joshua Medbery. He was the first convicted sex offender to be released under the new law. Read More. |
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