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| States want Second Chance Act funded |
| By Kansas City InfoZine |
| Published: 11/25/2008 |
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UNITED STATES - With correctional facilities around the country teeming with repeat offenders, state and local officials are hoping the Second Chance Act — a federal law signed by President Bush in April to help keep former prisoners from committing new crimes — will be a priority under the incoming Obama administration. The act, which Congress approved with widespread bipartisan support, authorizes $165 million in annual grants to states, localities, nonprofits and religious groups to build programs that help current and ex-offenders find jobs and housing, overcome drug and alcohol addictions, receive mentoring and return to society as law-abiding residents. When he signed the bill into law, President Bush called it a sign of support for the roughly 700,000 people who are released from state and federal prisons each year. Federal statistics show that more than two thirds of all those released from prison are rearrested for serious crimes within three years. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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