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| Female inmates get a new home |
| By The Santa Cruz Sentinel |
| Published: 08/22/2006 |
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SANTA CRUZ, CA - Jailed homeless women can look forward to a new place to learn life skills after serving time. County supervisors are expected today to approve buying Live Oak home to use for a fledgling residential treatment program. The home on Capitola Road Extension would shelter former nonviolent female inmates enrolled in Gemma, a new drug-rehabilitation, therapy and job-training program that seeks to keep women from returning to jail. Statistics show up to one-third of the 25 women released from county jails each week are homeless, and three out of four will return to jail an average of four times. Gemma's first clients could apply for the six- to 18-month residential program after completing nine weeks of classes at Blaine Street, a low security jail where most inmates are held for drug crimes...Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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