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| Statewide Program Aims To Reduce Prison Overcrowding, Recidivism |
| By wesa.fm- Liz Reid |
| Published: 01/06/2016 |
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The Pennsylvania Department of Corrections has announced a program aimed at keeping people serving short sentences in county jails instead of state prisons. The department is offering up to $1.5 million to assist participating counties with programs for housing and rehabilitating “short min” inmates. “We define short mins as someone who walks in one of our prisons and has a year or less to go until their minimum sentence date,” said Bret Bucklen, Director of Planning, Research and Statistics with the DOC. “The minimum sentence date is the minimum amount of time that they have to spend in prison before they can be eligible for release onto parole.” Read More. |
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