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Jefferson County Jail expanding reentry and ready-to-work program Updated Mar 03, 2021; A program aimed at making Jefferson County Jail inmates employable once they are released will be expanded, Sheriff Mark Pettway announced Wednesday. The program is implemented through three phases: Ready to Work, Training to Work, and finally Graduation and Release. Inmates eligible for the program are those who are being held on non-violent offenses. Program officials will work with judges to identify tho...

Man who spent decades behind bars now helping make sure others don’t do the same BUCK_WVIR By Daniel Grimes | February 23, 2021 at 9:58 AM EST - Updated February 23 at 7:51 PM CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (WVIR) -In an effort to decrease the recidivism rate in Charlottesville and Albemarle County, a new program is coming to the regional jail. The REAL (Rehabilitation, Empowerment and Advancement for Liberation) Re-entry Program is the brainchild of Bryan Page, a man who has spent decades of h...

HCC Uses Innovative Prevention Efforts To Curb Overdose, Drug Abuse Expand The Hamilton County Coalition has been a pillar in Chattanooga and other Southeast Tennessee communities in providing prevention resources for overdose, substance abuse disorder, and more. As Hamilton County Coalition entered its 11th year of operation at the beginning of 2020, its staff, directors, and partners had developed a procedural way of accomplishing their goals. But when COVID-19 shutdowns began locally in mid-...

By Jerry Mitchell Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting Jan 1, 2021  (AP Photo/Rogelio Solis, File) This is a July 12, 2002 file photo of the entrance to the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman, Miss. Rogelio Solis Mississippi officials are hoping that lifting the ban on smoking inside prison will help curb the huge contraband trade that some inmates estimate may run in the millions. “By selling the same cigarettes that are all...

New book, state audit scrutinize contracted correctional programs in MT Are 20-year contracts appropriate? and last updated 2020-12-23 19:52:16-05 BOULDER — Editor’s note: This story is the second of a two-part series on a new book critiquing the Montana Department of Corrections’ management of treatment programs for criminal offenders. When the state Corrections Department shut down a successful treatment program at a state-run facility in Boulder two years ago, it moved progra...

MDOC to allow inmates to use tobacco products in prison Commissioner Cain said this will be a positive change for inmates and taxpayers Share Updated: 4:42 PM CST Dec 23, 2020 Commissioner Cain said this will be a positive change for inmates and taxpayers Share Updated: 4:42 PM CST Dec 23, 2020 Inmates in Mississippi prisons will soon be allowed to legally buy and use tobacco products in prison facilities for the first time in 10 years. According to MDOC officials, the ch...

Book by former correction employees critiques Montana’s offender-treatment programs By: Mike Dennison and last updated 2020-12-23 16:36:36-05 BOULDER — Editor’s note: This story is the first of a two-part series on a new book critiquing the Montana Department of Corrections’ management of treatment programs for criminal offenders. In a book they co-authored and published, two former employees at a Montana correctional treatment program for female inmates say ...

1. Phil Stewart and Idress Ali, “U.S. Navy Suffering from ‘Failure in Leadership,’ Says Nominee to Lead It,” Reuters, 7 May 2020 www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-navy/u-s-navy-suffering-from-failure-in-leadership-says-nominee-to-lead-it-idUSKBN22J2AD.  2. LT Daniel Stefanus, USN, “Retaining More High-Performing Aviation, Sub, and SWO Talent,” MyNavy HR Feeder Board, 18 February 2020.  3. Army Talent Management Task Force, “Army Announces New Battalion Commander Selection Program,�...

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So, prison ministries, all of those things that government doesnt like to admit to that works. >> right. >> works. and so when we bring faith back in to the prison system, and prisoners have hope again. that worked better for us than anything we could have done, another reentry program, getting jobs, getting drivers license, keeping them connected with their families so they have something to work towards getting out of prison. and i can tell you i had to call a lot of my republicans into the go...