"The reason we saw those increasing numbers every year was because of the sentencing reforms undertaken by so many states," said Allen J. Beck, the chief of corrections statistics for the Justice Department, who compiled the new figures.
Before becoming the chief of the city correction department in 1998, Mr. Reilly served as a bureau chief for four years when he oversaw inmate management and also personnel matters.
It is highly unusual for officers to take cars home, and questions about who authorized Mr. Reyes's access to the car led to Mr. Davis, the chief of department, according to a correction official familiar with the inquiry.
Sackler reached out to about twenty state departments of correction before Doug Garrison, the chief of communications at the Indiana D.O.C., responded with something other than a pro-forma no.
The number of criminals being sent to prison for the second or more time has increased steadily, rising to 35percentt of the total number of admissions in 1995 from 18percentt in 1980, said Allen J. Beck, chief of corrections statistics at the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the statistical branch of the Justice Department.
"Parole is a system set up to find failure," said Michael Jacobson, president of the Vera Institute of Justice in New York and a former chief of corrections and probation for the city.
Officials said Mr. Ebel had been driving a black Cadillac with Colorado license plates, a car that matched descriptions of a vehicle spotted near the home of Colorado's chief of corrections, Tom Clements.
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(Roger Burlingame is the chief of the unit).
Neither did the Chief of the Army Staff.
