Sheriff Daron Hall participated in a news conference Thursday at the Martha O’Bryan Center with the non-profit organization Fight Crime:  Invest in Kids.  The focus is to bring attention to the need of adequately funding quality pre-k programs and decreasing dropout rates.  A direct correlation between the two is found in many national studies and it is also known that high school dropouts are three and a half times more likely to be arrested than high school graduates.  Seventy-five percent of inmates in state prisons are high school dropouts.  What does that mean to the DCSO?  Kids that stay in school and graduate are less likely to end up in jail.

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