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| Feds outline ways to patch probation |
| By The News & Observer |
| Published: 08/20/2008 |
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NORTH CAROLINA - A federal report, released late Tuesday, highlighting flaws in North Carolina's troubled probation system will be the subject of a meeting today between state and federal corrections officials in Washington. The National Institute of Corrections, a federal agency, was called in last spring to do an independent evaluation of the state's probation system after problems were exposed in the handling of the two suspects charged with killing Eve Carson, president of the study body at UNC-Chapel Hill. One suspect also stands accused of killing Abhijit Mahato, a Duke University graduate student. State Secretary of Correction Theodis Beck requested a swift federal review of the state system. That audit found that probation offices grapple with heavy caseloads, high turnover, an information disconnect between adult and juvenile courts, and archaic computer systems that make it difficult to share information. These findings are similar to a report the same agency made on the state's probation system in 2004. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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