Corrections Grants News and Articles

• Maine university-prison education partnership to expand with $1M grant

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  The grant will help hire a new director, expand the humanities classes offered and allow UMA to purchase new technology for the program.

• NC county gets another $1.8M to reduce over-incarceration

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  The money is the latest installment from the MacArthur Foundation's Safety and Justice Challenge that has now given the county a total of $3.6 million since 2016

• Philly receives $2.3 million grant to continue working to reduce its jail population

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  The grant is aimed at reducing by 15% the number of people in city jails by the end of 2022

• Ohio health board gets addiction grant to expand inmate treatment

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  The money will be used to expand medically-assisted treatment to inmates at the Ottawa County jail

• Grant awarded to help educate and employ Ala. inmates after release

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  The grant will fund a career program in the Mobile Metro County Jail providing education and training for inmates

• Wash. county offers alternatives to jail for some offenders

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  The county is the latest in the state to have a local organization receive an Arrest and Jail Alternatives Grant through the Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion program

• Tenn. jail uses grant to buy enhanced security

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  The GUARDIAN RFID software was around $134,000 and was purchased with grant funds

• Miss. community college partners in grant to teach humanities in prison system

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  Three Mississippi two-year colleges are part of a $375,000 grant supporting humanities courses being taught in prisons

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