Community Corrections news: - Out-of-state prison space sought for Wash. inmates

Out-of-state prison space sought for Wash. inmates
Spokane Spokesman-Review - Ninety such inmates were released Friday from King and Snohomish county jails without consultation with their community corrections officers. State and local officials acknowledged that the parole violator population had outstripped the number for ...

Technology Helps Track Sex Offenders
WNDU - It was a move that quickly showed up on a computer screen at the Community Corrections Office in South Bend. Little green dots indicate the subject is moving. A red dot indicates the offender is within 50-feet of where they shouldn't be. The device ...

State ditches plan to let more felons go
Seattle Times - The move was unusual because of the number of offenders released at one time and the fact that the community corrections officers who supervise the offenders' cases weren't consulted, Ramsdell-Gilkey said. Though Ramsdell-Gilkey said the DOC's goal ...

Pell City jail faces overcrowding dilemma
Daily Home Online - Just last month, the county hired a director for its new community corrections program, which is designed to move nonviolent offenders out of jails into a supervised work program that allows them to pay any restitution related to their crimes. I ...

Gregoire: Keep parole violators locked up
Seattle Post Intelligencer - The problem is a crackdown on violators of Community Corrections orders, and a limit on the number of prisoners that the state contracts for in 13 Washington counties, including King County, where the releases occurred over the weekend. "We reached ...