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Sargent made a rare appearance before the Social Welfare Committee to plug State Bill S-1601, which would lower the percentage of sentence a prisoner must serve before he becomes eligible for parole to one-third of his minimum sentence. Exceptions would be made in cases of murder or habitual...
The bill would repeal the "two-thirds law," which provides that a person convicted of a violent crime must serve two-thirds of his sentence before he is eligible for a parole hearing.
"We now have an anti-parole law which removes the incentive for rehabilitation," Sargent said, "a law which destroys a man's hope and preconditions him to continue his criminal career on release."
At San Diego, the program has been remarkably successful. Of the 47 prisoner alumni accepted, only two have violated parole and been sent back to stir. The makes a 4.3% rate of recidivism, compared with 30.4% for the corrections system statewide. "We take the whole range of offenses," says Dr...
In addition, there would be the cost of providing thousands of trained psychologists, parole and probation officers, all of whom would be necessary for an effective rehabilitation effort. According to one study, only 15% of corrections employees are engaged in community programs; 80% have custodial duties. Too often, the guards...