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mm mmm WWW.DNJ.COM TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2010 MURFREESBORO, TENNESSEE 75 I i JENNINGS AYERS FUNERAL HOME I jenningsandayers.com fc TN-OO00625422 STATE CORRECTIONS GETTING HER SECOND WIND 1 JOHN A. GILLISDN i Alysha Clark, middle, with Chip Walters, left and Kelly Holcomb, right, works in the broadcast booth at the MTSU-Minnesota football game last Thursday night. WNBA snub makes Clark determined to make cut BY LUCAS JOHNSON II ASSOCIATED PRESS NASHVILLE A collaborative effort between the Tennessee Board of Probation and Parole and the state Correction Department to improve the chances an inmate released on parole won't be arrested again has saved the state $33 million within its first year, correction officials say. The two departments launched the joint effort last year to save taxpayers money, reduce recidivism, preserve expensive prison beds for the most dangerous offenders and make communities safer. Correction Commissioner Gayle Ray and Parole Board Chairman Charles Traughber recently sat down in an interview with The Associated Press to discuss the progress made since the plan was implemented.

Ray said population projections last year indicated the state would probably need to build a new prison by 2016. However, she said those projections have since decreased and the prison recommendation has been extended to 2020. Instead of a population of 30,511 in 2016, correction officials now anticipate having a population of 28,072. SEE INMATE, PAGE A3 Former Lady Raider headed to Israel T7 I V. who had been drafted just a few weeks earlier by the Silver Stars.

"I started preparing myself a little bit," Clark says of the night before being released. "So on the morning of, I didn't want to cry. But at the same time, I kind of was." It had been a whirlwind few months for the Mt. Juliet na- Alysha Clark didn't want to cry. But she did.

Not a lot, though, considering the range of emotions following being cut in May from San Antonio of the WNBA. Surprise, anger and disappointment soon turned to determination for the former MTSU women's basketball Ail-American, tive. She had led the nation in scoring again while helping the Lady Raiders gain the NCAA Tournament again, only to lose SEE CLARK, PAGE A3 Sourinho's election marks Laotian milestone New qounty commissioner first elected leader from Laos BY SCOTT BRODEN SBRODENDNJ.COM American citizen in 1984, Sourinho has helped many others who left his former is 'mmi mfim Py WL-rS mufjitAJi vi I i -mi i riinwwi i i. -l. i country as refugees become adjusted to Chantho Sourinho took the oath of jjfe nere.

office this month for the Rutherford He now hopes t0 heip them and County Commission, quite likely as the many others as the commissioner serv- first Asian and Laotian American elect- mg tne 2ist District edhere. "I plan to work for all the people and Many Laotians, including Buddhist listen to all the people with all the is-monks, were present for the ceremony, s.ues," Sourinho said during an inter-joining families 'and friends of the 21 view on a bench outside the Historic commissioners and constitutional offi- County Courthouse, the same place cers who pledged to uphold the U.S. where he'll be attending meetings to and Tennessee constitutions. represent his constituents. A man who left his native Laos to attend MTSU in 1972 and became an see MILESTONE, PAGE A6 AARONTHOMPSONDNJ Chantho Sourinho is the first Laotian to be elected to the Rutherford County County Commission.

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