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| Rikers Program Will Try To Keep Ex-Inmates Out Of Jail With "The Little Things" |
| By gothamist.com - Christopher Robbins |
| Published: 02/25/2013 |
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Mayor Bloomberg visited Rikers Island yesterday to announce a new program designed to give inmates who are at the highest risk of returning to jail a way to earn their GED, stay sober, or get a state-issued ID. "It's the little things," Bloomberg told reporters. "You ever try to get a job without a state-issued ID? Almost every job requires a high school degree these days," the mayor said, adding that inmates who keep returning as many as 20 or 30 times "get hungry after awhile" for a sense of normalcy. The initiative, which is called the Individualized Correction Achievement Network (I-CAN), allows the Osborne Association and the Fortune Society to work with the Department of Corrections to target high-risk adult inmates while they await trial. Those particular inmates are 70% more likely to return to re-offend a year after being released. "We call what they're doing 'life on the installment plan,' " said Osborne's executive director Elizabeth Gaynes. Read More. |
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