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| Community Corrections report filed |
| By newsandsentinel.com - Pamela Brust |
| Published: 10/07/2013 |
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PARKERSBURG - According to the 2013 West Virginia Community Corrections Act Annual Report community, corrections programs around the state are keeping nonviolent offenders out of the correctional system. The nine-page report, which is required for submission by the Governor's Committee on Crime, Delinquency and Correction, was handed over Sept. 30. In Fiscal Year 2013, the grant-funded programs reported 3,862 new offenders entered their programs. Of 3,364 terminated during this fiscal year 1,472 successfully completed the program and 1,892 were terminated without completing the program. According to the report, "with a continued increase in fee collection and appropriations, more counties will be provided with community correction services for fiscal year 2013. In addition, local programs have been providing more re-entry services for parolees in the state." "This is a program that really benefits the community in a variety of ways while also helping the county commission to keep regional jail bills low with its alternate programs, with the real goal being to reduce the recidivism rate," said Wood County Commissioner Blair Couch, who serves as president of the Mid-Ohio Valley Day Report Center advisory board. "The long-term program goal is to reduce recidivism by giving the clients in the program the skills to help keep them from making bad choices like drugs and crime," Couch said, noting the charges include nonviolent offenses, including theft and drug possession. "Drugs are a real problem and we see it everyday. The drugs that are being used now are highly addictive and people are making bad decisions in order to get their fix," Couch said. Couch praised the local day report center staff and executive director Dennie Huggins. "We have a lot of professionals in our program. It's a multi-county program," he said. The local program serves Wood, Jackson, Roane and Wirt counties. Read More. |
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