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The name of the arrangement by which local public school boards permit students to be dismissed from classes prior to the complet...
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NEW YORK, Oct. 3, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Online advertised vacancies rose 128,600 in September to 4,813,400, according to The Conference Board Help Wanted OnLine(R) (HWOL) Data Series released today. Following a strong rise of 625,000 in the first half of 2012, the third quarter finishes down 134,000. The Supply/Demand rate stands at 2.7 unemployed for every vacancy. In August the number of unemployed was 7.9 million above the number of advertised vacancies, down from 11.8 million at the end of the recession in June 2009 and 10 million in Q3 of 2011.
The September rise was welcome news, especially the strong gain for Sales staff and managers, which made up almost one third of the increase," said June Shelp, Vice President at The Conference Board. "Occupations commonly associated with bui...
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The Washtenaw County Sheriff's Office in Ann Arbor, Michigan, implements an innovative "Earned Release Time" program that motivates pretrial detainees and sentenced offenders to work and participate in programs. The National Institute of Corrections (NIC) has developed a new initiative-Inmate Behavior Management-to help jails motivate inmates. 2 This article draws on the experiences of Montgomery County, Maryland, during transition planning for their new correctional facility several years ago.
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Gov. Pat Quinn did what he had to do - for both political and practical reasons - when he suspended the release of prisoners under the Meritorious Good Time-Push program in December 2010.
But just as the early release of inmates has consequences, so does keeping them in prison for longer periods, as outlined in a two- part series by Pantagraph reporter Edith Brady-Lunny that starts today.
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HARRISBURG - Scott V. Brubaker, a former chairman of the Lancaster County Democratic Committee and one-time rising political star, was sentenced Tuesday to 6 to 18 months in a work-release program for his role in the state's largest public-corruption scandal in three decades.
Brubaker, a former high-level employee of the House Democrats who cooperated with prosecutors, was instrumental in implementing a scheme to pay bonuses to staffers as illegal rewards for political campaign work, Dauphin County Judge Richard Lewis said during the sentencing.
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Unfortunately, the agency has not adapted its management strategy to take full advantage of the diverse population reduction authorities and cost-savings measures given to it by Congress, such as: expanded half-way house placement, compassionate release, and sentence reduction programs like good time and drug program participation.
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BANGOR, Maine " Screening for Mental Health Inc., the nonprofit organization that sponsors National Depression Screening Day, recently notified Acadia Hospital that it earned the distinction of being a Top 25 Online Screening Site for National Depression Screening Day 2012.
Addressing public mental health issues is no easy task, and we congratulate Acadia Hospital for making it a priority," National Depression Screening Day program manager Michelle Holmberg said in a recent news release. "The time and energy spent by Acadia in promoting and facilitating NDSD 2012 is obvious, and Screening for Mental Health appreciates the hospital's commitment towards improving the well-being of its community.
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The small farm my husband and I own in Bedford County is home to five semi-feral cats. We feed them twice a day, and in exchange, they hunt the moles, voles and other garden-damaging pests that proliferated across our property when we moved in six years ago.
One family of feral cats - Mama Cat and three kittens - arrived about a year after we did, and we soon realized we had a major problem. Mama Cat had at least two litters per year. By the time we heard of the feral cat spay/neuter/release program at Angels of Assisi in Roanoke, we had about a dozen ferals. With the help of two live traps, we inched our way toward getting them sterilized, one by one.
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Local law enforcement officers are hoping to return hundreds of items to their rightful owners after making an arrest in a string of vehicle break-ins earlier last week. Anthony B. Ulm, 36, has been in jail since Saturday. Officials believe he is the perpetrator of several break-ins - many of them targeting work trucks - after recovering several thousands of dollars worth of power tools, tool boxes, ladders, sporting goods and other items from his South Taft Avenue home and a residence of a relative. At the time of his arrest, Ulm was in a Warrick County work-release program.
On Thursday, Sgt. Jason Cullum of the Evansville Police Department called the amount of items recovered "bizarre." He said investigators have not ruled out the possibility more items could have been sol...
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The camps - Pharsalia (Chenango County), Gabriels (Franklin County) and McGregor (Saratoga County) - are each operating at about one-half capacity. Remaining inmates will be transferred to other camps and possibly other minimum security correctional facilities. Remaining inmates from Hudson (Columbia County) will fill vacancies at other medium security prisons. Hudson's Work Release component will remain open.
Camps no longer serve the correctional functions they did 20 years ago. By law, only inmates 24 months to release can be placed at camps, and those inmates are typically in need of the kind of reentry services such as educational, vocational, skill building and treatment programs that camps provide only minimally. Also, program requirements for merit time, supplemental merit time ...