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| Prison board reviews programs to reduce overcrowding |
| By republicanherald.com- Mark Gilger Jr. |
| Published: 01/21/2016 |
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In their first meeting of the new year, the Schuylkill County prison board heard about the various programs being administered by the adult probation office in an effort to reduce overcrowding at the jail. The prison had an average inmate population of 301 throughout 2015. The monthly average dropped to 273 for December, peaking at 286 for the month. That is the lowest monthly average since it was 271 in January 2015. Intakes totaled 2,342 — 1,792 men and 550 women — for 2015, and the average length of stay per inmate was 47 days, according to Warden Gene Berdanier’s report. Neil Stefanisko, probation office supervisor, provided the board with an overview for each program, including the prerelease, restrictive intermediate, DUI intermediate, vocational rehab, supervised bail and work release. “(In 2015) there were 327 defendants that we supervised in specialized programs,” Stefanisko said. “Out of them, we removed 65 for violations. There were a total of 248 defendants that completed the program successfully. There were a total of 31,557 jail days saved and the recidivisms for all the inmates in the program is approximately 19 percent.” Read More. |
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