Corrections Grants News and Articles

• Pa. DOC gets grant to help county jails with medication-assisted treatment programs

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  The $145,000 grant will provide training and resources to county jails to enhance local medication-assisted treatment programs

• $700K grant to fund criminal justice reform efforts in Wash. city

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  Local officials plan to implement a number of measures aimed at reducing the jail population

• Ala. county jail to expand reentry, ready-to-work program with grant

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  Some of the skills and assistance offered by this program are job preparation, comprehensive case management and identifying barriers to employment

• Maine university-prison education partnership to expand with $1M grant

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  The grant will help hire a new director, expand the humanities classes offered and allow UMA to purchase new technology for the program.

• NC county gets another $1.8M to reduce over-incarceration

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  The money is the latest installment from the MacArthur Foundation's Safety and Justice Challenge that has now given the county a total of $3.6 million since 2016

• Philly receives $2.3 million grant to continue working to reduce its jail population

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  The grant is aimed at reducing by 15% the number of people in city jails by the end of 2022

• Ohio health board gets addiction grant to expand inmate treatment

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  The money will be used to expand medically-assisted treatment to inmates at the Ottawa County jail

• Grant awarded to help educate and employ Ala. inmates after release

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  The grant will fund a career program in the Mobile Metro County Jail providing education and training for inmates

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