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Sun Apr 14, 2013, 10:55 AM Apr 2013

President's budget: Enhances Reentry and Recidivism Initiatives (expands Second Chance Act)

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• Improves reentry initiatives by expanding Second Chance Act programs and works to reduce
recidivism rates by providing drug treatment, increasing alternatives to incarceration, and
strengthening family and parental ties.

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Maintains Safe and Secure Prison Capacity. The Budget proposes $8.6 billion, a 4.3 percent increase over the 2012 enacted level, for Federal prisons and detention facilities. These funds are provided to continue activation of newly completed or acquired prisons, and to provide additional contract beds to address growth by alleviating crowding in low security facilities and systemwide. Opportunities to reduce the prison population, with a focus on non-violent offenders, will continue to be explored.

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Enhances Reentry and Recidivism Initiatives. The Administration is committed to a comprehensive strategy to contain incarceration costs over the long term by assisting inmates with reentering society and reducing the population of individuals who return to prison after being released, while improving public safety. To do this, the Budget provides $15 million for the Bureau of Prisons to expand the Residential Drug Abuse Program and $6 million to expand alternatives to traditional incarceration, including home monitoring programs. Additionally, through State and local assistance programs, the Budget provides $119 million for the Second Chance Act Grant program to reduce re-offending and help ex-offenders return to productive lives, $19 million for Residential Substance Abuse Treatment in the Nation’s prisons and jails to help break the cycle of drug offending, and $10 million to expand Hawaii’s HOPE Probation project with “swift and certain” sanctions to other sites. The Budget also addresses the needs of children of incarcerated persons by including funding to expand children and family visitations, develop and disseminate information about child support rules and regulations, and evaluate arrest policies to minimize the impact on children.

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Promotes Smart Crime Strategies That Protect the Public and Reduce Incarceration. The Budget also invests in several programs to promote better public safety and help reduce State and local corrections system costs. For example, the Budget invests $44 million in Problem-Solving Grants, which support drug courts, mentally ill offender assistance, and other problem solving approaches to work with special needs offenders while minimizing costly incarceration. The Justice Reinvestment Initiative, funded at $85 million, works with States to reduce unnecessary incarceration and reinvest the savings in efforts that promote public safety. In coordination with the Department of Education’s School Climate Transformation Grants, the Budget also proposes $20 million for a Juvenile Justice and Education Collaboration Assistance program to help reduce juvenile arrests (and the “school-to-prison pipeline”) while improving school safety. With 2.3 million individuals in U.S. prisons, 1 in 32 American adults under correctional supervision, and 71,000 juveniles held in juvenile facilities, these programs aim to achieve improved public safety using evidencebased strategies and data-driven approaches.

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http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/omb/budget/fy2014/assets/justice.pdf


President's budget: Excellent proposals that Congress should support.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022670043

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