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Vanessa Murphy with CBS Action News 8 investigates our home and the parole problem in Las Vegas. http://www.afterorange.org/

Vanessa Murphy reports that nearly 400 inmates in Nevada prisons are ready to be released. This a problem because there is no place for some of them to go, due to a lack of transitional housing in the state.

While the inmates are waiting to be placed, the cost of keeping them incarcerated is $23,000 a day, according to numbers provided by the Department of Corrections.

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ready to be released but no place to go that's the situation for a hundreds of inmates in Nevada prisons right now those are your tax dollars spent on keeping them locked up the i-team is Vanessa Murphy brings you the story of one woman trying to change that and the

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roadblock she's running into nearly 400 inmates locked up in nevada prisons are ready for release they're literally sitting there and just rotting it costs on average more than $21,000 a year 2,000 inmate according to the Department of Corrections so those inmates who have

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already served their time but are still behind bars are costing taxpayers around $23,000 a day it's a struggle for real it's almost like if you get if you get into the system it's really hard to get out a problem for some of those inmates there's not enough transitional housing

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already served their time but are still behind bars are costing taxpayers around $23,000 a day it's a struggle for real it's almost like if you get if you get into the system it's really hard to get out a problem for some of those inmates there's not enough transitional housing

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I don't know anything about them I do know about them they're my sister you know when she went in I know that my sister was really depressed it's a cold environment the food is not good she's chronicled her family's story here alone she was alone which led to after

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need a support system and safe place to live what do you want to accomplish Cassandra we have a kind of hot curfew trying to provide that are you surprised that there are more places like this more homes absolutely definitely the space the beds and the programs are

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in this West Las Vegas home cassandra opened last November yeah it's a really perfect house for this particular reason there was already two refrigerators and some women recently released from prison are here I'm just trying to keep the place open let alone raise another

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hundred thousand dollars just to be a licensed facility so this is donation to says nominations from from the community Cassandra says it's been a struggle working with the state of Nevada to get approval from parole and probation and to become licensed fees from the

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division of public and behavioral health according to a spokeswoman could cost Cassandra more than 5,400 dollars just to get started that's not including any construction she might need to meet building and fire codes I'm just trying to help some people out but they're

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making it very difficult for regular people to help people out hi Sarah the house runs mainly on donations and the women are expected to pitch in please contact me back with money earned from jobs we have this taboo as far as like oh the bad girls well not all of us are

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bad girls you know we just made some bad choices and that we deserve an opportunity to be seen for who we are and not for what we've done really I'm trying to stay clean and build healthy relationships like people actually care here and I got used to having that in my

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life too regaining custody of their children or the whole idea to get your daughter back these women say this home is their lifeline and Nevada needs more homes and more people like this we run this house on the idea forgiveness and love unconditional love it's a serious

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struggle we've messed up we went to prison we did our time we've lost everything many times how many times do we got paid you're forcing us into a corner like give us a chance Cassandra Hines sister Jaime is scheduled to be released from prison next month after serving about ten years

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Cassandra tells us her hope is for Jaime to live at the home eventually again it can be tricky to get approval from parole and probation so she will likely not be able to live there immediately after her release Cassandra already has a list of inmates who she says have

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been denied Vanessa Murphy 8 News now Cassandra has a GoFundMe page to try to keep the house running we have a link to that on Las Vegas now.com just click on this story