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| Some prison guards will be converted into parole officers as the state continues to shift the focus of its penal system toward integrating nonviolent offenders back into society |
| By therepublic.com- Pat Eaton-Robb |
| Published: 01/11/2016 |
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HARTFORD, Connecticut — Some prison guards will be converted into parole officers as the state continues to shift the focus of its penal system toward integrating nonviolent offenders back into society. The Department of Correction is putting a program in place that will allow guards to receive the training they need to make the career switch, Commissioner Scott Semple told The Associated Press. A byproduct of Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's Second Chance Society initiative will be fewer inmates in prisons and more in community-based programs, where the state already oversees about 4,000 people, Semple said. Among other things, the new law reclassifies drug possession as a misdemeanor and was designed to give convicts more help with housing, employment and drug treatment. Read More. |
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