"There is a direct correlation between the level of prison violence and the shortage of correctional staff in an overpopulated prison system with limited resources for rehabilitating offenders,

Rickey Stokes

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Date: Mar 17 2019 6:43 PM

HOUSTON COUNTY: Would the Prosecutor, Defense Attorney or the Parole and Probation Officer allow the management of the Alabama Department of Corrections to conduct SAP ( Substance Abuse Program ) for their children with hope it will work?

If the Judge is told a person has been approved for a 12 month in house treatment program with TEEN CHALLENGE decide the Alabama Department of Corrections SAP Program was better?

TEEN CHALLENGE - 12 months in house treatment program with proven success rates

SAP - a 8 week program managed by the Alabama Department of Corrections

CLICK FOR ALABAMA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS REPORT

From the Alabama Department of Corrections own report, December 7, 2018:

ADOC this week acknowledged the ongoing staffing problem, which has been the subject of a federal lawsuit. Prison officials told The Associated Press in September that the department would need to hire 1,800 to 2,000 new employees to be effectively staffed, which would nearly double their current numbers.

The Montgomery Advertiser in 2017 reported falling officer morale and employment numbers in the state prison system. According to ADOC records, the number of correctional officers assigned to state prisons fell from 2,042 in September 2015 to 1,627 in September 2017, a 20-percent drop in the workforce.

"There is a direct correlation between the level of prison violence and the shortage of correctional staff in an overpopulated prison system with limited resources for rehabilitating offenders," ADOC Public Information Manager Bob Horton said in an emailed statement this week.

"The proliferation of drugs and criminal activity inside prisons also contribute to an increase in violent incidents. The Alabama Department of Corrections recognizes the seriousness of the problem and is taking steps to reverse this trend."

On Wednesday, Morrison said accountability from ADOC's leadership was vital. EJI called Alabama's prisons the "deadliest in the nation," comparing Alabama's prison homicide rate to the national average from 2001 to 2014, the most recent data available from the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics.

Yet the Prosecutor, defense attorney and Parole and Probation recommended to 20th Judicial Circuit Court Judge Larry Anderson that a young man with a drug problem would be better served to be sent, involuntarily, to the SAP Program of the Alabama Department of Corrections, and then to 12 months in TEEN CHALLENGE.

If he lives through the 8 weeks in the Alabama Department of Corrections, less then three months ago the spokesman hired by the Alabama Department of Corrections made the following statement:

"There is a direct correlation between the level of prison violence and the shortage of correctional staff in an overpopulated prison system with limited resources for rehabilitating offenders.

So I return to my original question: how can the prosecutor, defense attorney and Parole and Probation Officers make such a recommendation and intentionally withhold from Circuit Judge Larry Anderson the defendant had been approved for Teen Challenge, which has proven to be successful?

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