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| County to receive funds to keep offenders out of jail |
| By ewarkadvocate.com |
| Published: 11/02/2009 |
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Court services will receive a $60,000 boost to its $213,589 appropriation for prison diversion and a $32,500 increase to its $50,590 for jail diversion, chief probation officer Kelly Miller said. Current appropriations fund 4 1/2 positions. Diversion includes community-based programs to rehabilitate and monitor lower-level felony offenders without incarcerating them, thus saving taxpayer money. Typical candidates are drug and alcohol cases or people who don't pay child support, Miller said. The Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction sets goals that Licking County must meet to keep the funds, including reducing the number of jail days used by common pleas court offenders by 25 percent, Miller said. Other targets include reducing the number of fourth- and fifth-degree drug felonies that are sentenced to prison by 50 individuals and sending no one to prison for failure to pay child support, Miller said. These targets will be assessed after two years to determine if the department met them, he added. Read More. |
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