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Show Wilson, agent and secretary, board of corrections but it was estimated estimat-ed that 75 of such persons permanently perm-anently keep out of trouble. During the ten years of the correction cor-rection board's existence, 1113 persons per-sons have been placed on probation proba-tion and 1191 paroles have been granted. LARGE PERCENT OF ' UTAH CRIMINAL CASES REFORMED About 90 percent of parole and probation cases handled by the state department of adult probation proba-tion and parole during the first two years after department action follow the "straight and narrow" and become valuable members of society, parole authorities said Saturday. Permanent records of probations and paroles are impossible to maintain, it was noted, since personnel per-sonnel of the department is limited lim-ited and the period of supervision averages only two years. After that period, parolees or probationers probation-ers often leave the state or become be-come involved in criminal counts in this state, according to W. Keith |