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Idaho Incompetence Delays Prisoners' Release, Taxpayers Foot The Bill
Loaded on Sept. 15, 2004
by Michael Rigby
published in Prison Legal News
September, 2004, page 30
Idaho prisoners check in but they don't check outand it's costing taxpayers thousands. That's the criticism being hurled at the Idaho parole commission and the state Department of Corrections (DOC) for unnecessarily holding prisoners past their approved parole dates.
Filed under:
Discrimination,
Sex Offenders (Discrimination),
Parole,
Seizure of Prisoner Funds.
Location:
Idaho.
At any given time, hundreds of state prisoners are being needlessly ...
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