The racial gap also was stark - one of every 11 black adults is under correctional supervision, one of every 27 Hispanic adults, one of every 45 white adults. Jim Doyle's plan are good for criminal justice, good for the taxpayer and good for preventing crime and keeping Wisconsin safe.
It said improved community-supervision strategies represent one of the most feasible ways for states to limit corrections spending and reduce recidivism. Adam Gelb, director of Pew's Public Safety Performance Project, stressed that violent and incorrigible criminals need to be locked up, but contended that many prison inmates could be safely overseen in their communities at far lower cost.
It will fuel the cycle of more crime, more victims, more arrests, more prosecutions, and still more imprisonment. The report cited a probation program in Hawaii as a positive example.
Under that program, which offers extensive counseling and treatment, failure to comply with random drug tests, office visits and treatment requirements is met with immediate sanctions - typically a few days in jail. Participants have proven far less likely than others on probation to be arrested for new crimes and sent back to prison. The Pew report says strong community supervision programs for low-risk offenders not only cost much less than incarceration but, when properly funded and managed, can cut recidivism by as much as 30 percent.
The five states with the highest rate of adults under correctional supervision were Georgia, Idaho, Texas, Massachusetts and Ohio, the report said. The five states with the highest rate of adults under correctional supervision were Georgia, Idaho, Texas, Massachusetts and Ohio, the report said. According to Pew's figures, Idaho had 48, people on probation in -- the key factor in its ranking. Idaho corrections officials said the figure was too high, based on their count of about 26, offenders on supervised probation, but they did not immediately provide figures on additional offenders on unsupervised probation.
Georgia, although only the ninth most populous state, had more people on probation in -- , -- than any other state, according to the report.
The state Department of Corrections said the number might be inflated by double-counting of some offenders, but it has previously acknowledged that its probation population is the highest per capita in the country. One consequence, according to the department, is that Georgia probation officers have had a caseload far higher than the national average.
Gelb said advanced technology could be used to improve supervision without necessarily hiring more personnel. For example, he said some states now allow parolees and probationers to periodically report to an ATM-like kiosk, rather than to a person in a state office.
In any case, said Gelb, states could double or triple the amount they spend supervising parolees and probationers, and still come out ahead financially if the result was a reduced prison population. In Alaska, where construction is set to begin soon on a new medium-security prison, the corrections commissioner said he agreed with the thrust of the Pew report.
Slip-ups result in a loss of the earned time. Kansas has made headway in curbing its prison population by offering grants to community corrections programs that cut down on the high number of probation and parole rule-breakers being sent back to prison solely for such rule violations. The Pew report says strong community supervision programs for low-risk offenders not only cost much less than incarceration but, when properly funded and managed, can cut recidivism by as much as 30 percent.
The five states with the highest rate of adults under correctional supervision were Georgia, Idaho, Texas, Massachusetts and Ohio, the report said. According to Pew's figures, Idaho had 48, people on probation in -- the key factor in its ranking. Idaho corrections officials said the figure was too high, based on their count of about 26, offenders on supervised probation, but they did not immediately provide figures on additional offenders on unsupervised probation.
Georgia, although only the ninth most populous state, had more people on probation in -- , -- than any other state, according to the report. The state Department of Corrections said the number might be inflated by double-counting of some offenders, but it has previously acknowledged that its probation population is the highest per capita in the country.
One consequence, according to the department, is that Georgia probation officers have had a caseload far higher than the national average.
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