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| New strategies help lower Iowa prison population |
| By wcfcourier.com - James Lynch |
| Published: 02/06/2013 |
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DES MOINES, Iowa --- A smarter and more aggressive approach to parole is reducing Iowa’s prison population, corrections officials told lawmakers, however, there is a limit on how many of the state’s 8,170 inmates can be released. “There will come a point where we can’t go any lower,” Jason Carlstrom, chairman of the Iowa Board of Parole, told the Iowa House-Senate Justice Systems Appropriations Subcommittee Feb. 5. “We’re not there yet.” The board increased the number of parolees by nearly 24 percent from fiscal 2011 to 2012 and is on track to exceed the 4,015 paroles last year, he said. That has helped reduce the prison population by about 800 inmates and stabilized the community-based corrections population between 30,000 and 31,000, Department of Corrections Director John Baldwin said. Read More. |
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