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| U.S. Department of Justice awards $6.7 million for reentry initiatives |
| By DOJ |
| Published: 09/27/2004 |
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ttorney General John Ashcroft today announced awards totaling $6.7 million to improve public safety by addressing the successful re-integration of high-risk, serious offenders returning to their communities from imprisonment. "Just as critical to our success in keeping the rate of violent crime at a 30-year low is ensuring that the men and women who have served their time and who are released from prisons and jails will be productive, law-abiding citizens," said Attorney General John Ashcroft. "Public safety and the public good do not end with the clang of a prison door. Effective re-entry programs help individuals who have paid a debt to society return to their communities, make up for lost ground, and redeem themselves. With these awards, we are providing the resources to build strong and successful re-entry programs, giving inmates the opportunity to become solid citizens upon release." The awards, provided through the Department of Justice's Office of Justice Programs (OJP), were available under OJP's Serious and Violent Offender Reentry Initiative. A total of $6.7 million in awards, for up to $317,000, was provided to 20 jurisdictions. A list of the awards is available at http://ojjdp.ncjrs.org/grants/04ReentryAwds.pdf. Attorney General Ashcroft made the announcements during the first-ever National Conference on Offender Reentry, which took place Sept. 19-22 in Cleveland. The conference, titled "Coming Together, Strengthening Partnerships, and Planning for the Future" included more than 1,200 stakeholders in the reentry field who gathered to exchange the latest information on programs that address high-risk serious offenders returning to their communities. The conference was co-sponsored by the Justice Department and seven other federal agencies. The Department's Bureau of Justice Statistics reports that almost 650,000 criminal offenders are released from prisons every year and returned to neighborhoods across the country. Two-thirds of them are re-arrested within three years, often for committing violent crimes. |
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