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KS: model parole program collapses with state budget cuts

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Kansas' model parole program collapses with state budget cuts By RICK MONTGOMERY The Kansas City Star Sat, Apr. 03, 2010 Lewis was babbling. ?I can see things. ? There are signs out there coming from The Beast.? One of his arms moved randomly above the black bandanna around his head, as if to swipe away cobwebs. The man rocking in his seat before parole officer Chris Jorgensen in the drab, tiny Department of Corrections office in Kansas City, Kan., was one of 6,000 released convicts whom the state budget is doing less to help. Treatment and support services for Lewis, who did time on a theft charge, and other inmates re-entering society cost $12.6 million two years ago. That was when mental health care, job training and community residential programs for people on parole helped make Kansas a national model for success...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on April 05, 2010 (boomark / email).