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Achieving Better Outcomes for Adult Probation

County probation departments in California supervise roughly 350,000 adult offenders in their community. In addition to supervision, these departments also refer probationers to a variety of rehabilitation and treatment programs. Although the probation programs and supervision are a local responsibility, their performance affects state-level public safety programs. This is because adult offenders that fail on probation can have their probation term revoked and be sentenced to state prison, where it costs the state on average approximately $49,000 per year to incarcerate an offender...

Posted: May 3, 2009
Subject: Financial Affairs  Doc type: Reports  Author: LAO
Tags: lao, paroles