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Keeping felons from re-offending
By fox23.com - Abbie Alford
Published: 02/28/2012

A public safety act is working its way through the statehouse.

The Justice Reinvestment Initiative includes several crime-fighting initiatives that have brought in researchers and took authors of the proposal nine months to write.

Researchers believe it will cut crime by 10% over the next five years.

One of the keys to reducing crime in our communities is keeping the criminals from committing more crimes when they’re released from prison.

One of the initiatives would cost $2 million dollars to require supervision for all felons released from prison.

It would require hiring additional and training probation and parole officers.

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