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| Former inmate 'halfway house' aims to slow returns to Arizona prisons |
| By therepublic.com - Kim Smith |
| Published: 12/05/2012 |
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TUCSON, Arizona — Last year, roughly 3,000 former inmates were sent back to prison for using drugs and missing appointments with their community supervision officers, costing Arizona taxpayers nearly $16 million. Arizona Department of Corrections Director Charles Ryan hopes to drastically reduce those figures by following in the footsteps of Texas and a handful of other states now offering additional structure and educational programming at community correction centers — something akin to a halfway house, with additional services. Ryan moved 144 women from the minimum-security prison on West Starr Pass Boulevard to the prison in Perryville, and turned the Starr Pass Boulevard facility into the Southern Region Community Corrections Center. Read More. |
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