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https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2017/11/20/politics/bureau-of-prisons-mark-inch-jeff-sessions/index.htmlBy Eli Watkins, CNN
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CNN)The Bureau of Prisons is cutting off funding for halfway houses throughout the country, saving money the bureau says it needs at the expense of what reform advocates say are vital programs to help prisoners transition effectively and safely out of the corrections system.
Some 16 facilities around the country have seen or will see their contracts with the federal prison system end. The cuts are coming weeks into the tenure of newly minted Bureau of Prisons Director Mark Inch, whom Attorney General Jeff Sessions tapped earlier this year to lead the federal prison system. Inch, a retired Army major general, hails from the military's corrections and law enforcement system.
Halfway houses, or "residential re-entry centers" in federal prison lingo, help manage the transition for federal prisoners from incarceration to freedom. According to the Bureau of Prisons, the facilities "provide a safe, structured, supervised environment, as well as employment counseling, job placement, financial management assistance and other programs and services."
Kara Gotsch, director of strategic initiatives for The Sentencing Project, a criminal justice reform group, said the cutback won't necessarily mean that prisoners will go straight from prison to the outside world, but that it could diminish the time they spend getting acclimated to post-prison life.
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mucifer
(23,550 posts)Aristus
(66,388 posts)So many of my patients come to me through the halfway houses.
How are they going to be able to transition to the outside without the help of halfway houses?
jmowreader
(50,560 posts)Trump doesn't WANT them to transition to the outside. He wants them to get arrested again as soon as they're released, because Trump doesn't want anyone to ever leave prison.
Aristus
(66,388 posts)The private prison industry needs raw material...
Wounded Bear
(58,670 posts)they are clients. Need to keep them coming back.
jmowreader
(50,560 posts)In your more Republican areas, a decrease in people going to jail means your DA and judges are falling down on the job and we need new ones. It couldnt possibly mean fewer people are committing crimes.
dembotoz
(16,808 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,670 posts)Solly Mack
(90,773 posts)mercuryblues
(14,532 posts)a criteria for being released on probation. Without having a place to go, non-violent and drug offenders stay in prison longer.
de-funding 1/2 way houses is not a cost effective measure as it costs more to house someone in prison than in a group home setting. Then again that is the goal of private prisons. $$$$$$
applegrove
(118,694 posts)upon their release.