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Nevada prisoners aren’t getting prepared for parole
By lasvegassun.com- Ana Ley
Published: 05/22/2015

Nevada’s corrections agencies aren’t preparing inmates well enough to adjust to life after prison, the American Civil Liberties Union said in a report released today.

The ACLU drafted its four-page review after surveying 43 inmates within the Nevada Department of Corrections who were eligible for release through parole. The advocacy group wanted to know why 26 percent of the state’s parole-eligible inmates were refusing to be released or they were refusing to submit a parole plan.

The probe revealed that nearly three-fourths of those surveyed claimed to get very little to no help transitioning to life after prison from the Department of Corrections and the Parole and Probation division of the Nevada Department of Public Safety. About 20 percent of them who said they had refused parole blamed challenges within the corrections system.

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