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| Contract Recommended to Provide Jail Inmate Reentry Services |
| By lansingstar.com- Marcia E. Lynch |
| Published: 08/19/2016 |
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The Legislature's Public Safety Committee today recommended that Tompkins County contract with Cornell Cooperative Extension of Tompkins County (CCE) to provide coordinated reentry services for inmates of the Tompkins County Jail. The committee, by a unanimous 5-0 vote, recommended that County Administrator Joe Mareane be authorized to execute the one-year contract with Cooperative Extension, to take effect as of September 7. As part of an extensive review of the County's alternatives-to-incarceration programs, the County's Criminal Justice/Alternatives to Incarceration Board (CJATI) developed the Tompkins County Reentry Plan, presented last fall, to more effectively transition inmates from the jail back into the community—the goal to reduce recidivism rates, reducing the jail population over time. The recommended contract will support those coordinated, direct inmate reentry services. The Legislature, as part of the 2016 budget, appropriated $100,000 in ongoing funding to support the reentry program—approximately $75,000 for reentry coordination and grant-writing services (to seek outside funding to support reentry), and approximately $25,000 to expand educational programming at the Probation Department's Day Reporting Center through existing contracts. Read More. |
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