Corrections Grants News and Articles

• 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

• Colo. jail uses grant to contract new medical provider

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  The new service will be bolstered by a grant-funded mental health program that will have a new staff member helping inmates with mental health and opioid addiction

• Ore. county jail gets 3-year grant to fund substance abuse treatment

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  The program aims to serve 20 inmates per month with medication-assisted treatment and another 100 inmates with education and counseling

• Va. detention center gets $50K grant to fight spread of coronavirus

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  The funds will help the facility purchase specialized equipment and supplies needed to help reduce exposure to the virus

• Mich. county jail gets state grant to expand garden program

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  The grant money will not only allow the acreage of the garden to expand, but it also allows for the publishing of a book highlighting the program’s success

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