Record number of Ohio convicts released in 2003
1:01pm Wednesday, April 21, 2004
According to the Columbus Dispatch article RELEASE Re-entry REHABILITATION , a record 27,721 inmates — 90 percent of them men — released from Ohio prisons last year. The number was triggered by an overhaul of criminal-sentencing laws, more-lenient parole policies and increased diversions to community corrections programs. More than 9,100 former inmates — one out of three released last year — are...