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.
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.
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.
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 ...
IT'S saved. For now. New Jersey After 3, the stellar after- school program for low-income children, was supposed to close on Monday, victim to the governor's line-item budget axe and the resulting dearth of private funding. Yet Monday morning brought the heartening news from the very same governor's office that New Jersey After 3 will live. Not only that, the state Department of Education will be its partner -- again. Government being what it is these days, the deal sounds a lot like "scratch my back and I'll scratch yours" -- not that we're complaining, if funding comes through. The program will continue, but in turn it will aid New Jersey in the state's application for a waiver of the federal No Child Left Behind law. The application is due in mid-November. New Jersey After 3 will "bu...
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HUNTINGTON, Ind. (AP) - School officials in an Indiana district deny that a religious education program offered during the school day illegally advances religion, as a federal lawsuit claims. A complaint filed by attorneys with the American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana on behalf of an unnamed woman and her 8-year-old son asks a federal judge to shut down the program and bar the school district from providing it with any support. The boy attends Horace Mann Elementary School, which offers third- and fourth-grade students a "release time" program through the Associated Churches of Huntington, the suit states.
Most notable among the changes are increased flexibility granted to State staff in 1 selecting program participants (based on both age and time before release eligibility), 2 setting the amount to be spent per student per year on the instructional program and 3 establishing the length of time students with diplomas may participate in developmental (non-credit) courses. Explanatory language in the House and Senate conference committee report specified that strengthened Youth Offender Program outcome reporting requirements are intended to support this study and make it possible to document the benefits of post secondary education with the correctional population.
As jail inmates convicted of violent crimes continue to be freed early to save money, San Bernardino County officials are expressing concern - but say they have to obey the state's mandate or risk lawsuits. Since the law went into effect on Jan. 25, counties have struggled to interpret the half-page provision for the early release program that forbids authorities from releasing convicts serving time for about 150 violent offenses and sex crimes.
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