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| SC hopes new program will guide young prisoners |
| By goupstate.com - MEG KINNARD - AP |
| Published: 02/24/2012 |
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COLUMBIA — Under a program recently introduced in South Carolina, the job of trying to make sure a young inmate doesn't return to prison starts the first day of that person's sentence and continues after release. The program applies to people sentenced under South Carolina's Youthful Offender Act, which is designed to give young criminals a second chance. The law gives some first-time offenders ages 17 to 25 indeterminate prison sentences that can be as long as six years. According to a recent survey by the Department of Corrections, about 50 percent of those youthful offenders end up back in South Carolina's prison. Overall, South Carolina's adult recidivism rate is more than 30 percent, within three years. Read More. |
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