A criminal offender becomes eligible for parole according to the type of sentence received from the court.

The potential for the criminal to become a repeat offender remains a reality.

His chief crime initiative, he said, would be to shorten the time between indictment and trial for criminal offenders.

"The priority is in taking violent criminal offenders off the street and locking them up for long periods of time," he said.

Within three years, he set up an organization called Street Warriors with several other former criminal offenders.

He brought his expertise to the study of recidivism rates among criminal offenders.

The program tracks drug use trends by testing arrested criminal offenders.

They intend to retain the death penalty for the worst criminal offenders.

Established in 1886, its role is to manage criminal offenders in the community.