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| Nevada officials want more money to support parole-eligible inmates |
| By reviewjournal.com- Ben Botkin |
| Published: 02/01/2017 |
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State officials plan to hire probation and parole specialists to work in prisons with inmates who are eligible for parole but stuck behind bars because they lack necessities like a place to live, legislative committees heard Tuesday. The issue came up in presentations from both the Nevada Department of Public Safety and the Nevada Department of Corrections to lawmakers in a pre-session meeting that provided budget overviews. Nevada’s criminal justice system has suffered for years from a backlog of parole-eligible inmates who remain in prison because they don’t have a plan that qualifies them, often because they don’t have a place to live. “We’ve got to look at doing things differently,” James Wright, director of the public safety department, told lawmakers. Read More. |
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