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Send Cons Home to Do Time, Says Paris Sheriff

Give 2,000 inmates the Hilton treatment, Lee Baca urges

By Dustin Lushing, Newser Staff

Posted Jul 12, 2007 5:07 AM CDT

(Newser) – The sheriff who put Paris Hilton on mansion arrest is now championing a bill that would curb the overcrowding in California jails by sending thousands of other Los Angeles County inmates home to carry out their sentences. Some 2,000 low-level offenders would be tracked... Read full story »

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Send Cons Home to Do Time, Says Paris Sheriff

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