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MA: DOC Commissioner Seeks More Work-Release

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

?As you well know, we are crowded and that?s why we need to better manage our system with an eye toward re-entry. That?s why work release is important,? said Clarke, who became prison chief last November. ?We ought to be locking up folks we are afraid of, not folks that we?re mad at.? MA DOC Commission Harold Clarke. Chief: ?Angry? felons to be freed Swamped prisons seek work-release programs By Laura Crimaldi | Sunday, October 12, 2008 Boston Hearld Faced with exploding costs and a record-high inmate population, the state prison chief is warning that Massachusetts can?t afford its incarceration rate and must alter laws or deliver ?angry and unprepared? felons back to society. ?The message to policymakers is we have very limited resources to continue to incarcerate at the rate we?re doing so now,? Department of Correction Commissioner Harold W...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on October 12, 2008 (boomark / email).