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| Rehabilitating repeat offenders prevents more crime |
| By mysouthwestga.com |
| Published: 11/01/2011 |
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ALBANY, GA -- The two 22-year-old men arrested in connection with the high speed chase that killed a police officer on Friday had a long rap sheet, according to Albany Police Chief John Proctor. “It was the result of a criminal action by two persons that have a long criminal history in this community,” says Proctor. Dougherty County District Attorney Greg Edwards says Kentrell Bernard Butler and Wesley Martavi Wilkerson may have juvenile records, and he says he learned they have records in other districts. “I’ve been given some preliminary information that they may have been involved in other robberies; one or more of them may have been involved in other robberies,” says Edwards. Recidivism: It is the word for when a person gets out of jail, then commits a new crime. To prevent recidivism, Edwards says they work on what he calls a “triad system” with criminals. “Prevention, intervention and restoration; we have to get them to be restores or rehabilitated as best we can with the notion that we want them to not reoffend,” says Edwards. “We may need to work harder on that leg of the triad, (restoration) because if we're having repeat offenders then, again, the notion must be that we got to give them alternatives to crime.” Read More. |
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