Corrections Grants News and Articles

• Tenn. county gets $500K grant for project to transition women from prison to recovery

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  The project aims to help women recover from substance use disorders and reenter the workforce after prison

• The impact of the American Rescue Plan on local government

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  Cities and counties will receive $130 billion in aid for COVID-19 response

• Carlton County family jail initiative pushes forward with grant funding

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  The program connects inmates to their family members, as well as to other community resources

• Pa. DOC gets grant to help county jails with medication-assisted treatment programs

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  The $145,000 grant will provide training and resources to county jails to enhance local medication-assisted treatment programs

• $700K grant to fund criminal justice reform efforts in Wash. city

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  Local officials plan to implement a number of measures aimed at reducing the jail population

• Ala. county jail to expand reentry, ready-to-work program with grant

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  Some of the skills and assistance offered by this program are job preparation, comprehensive case management and identifying barriers to employment

• 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

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