FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
OJP
JULY 15, 2002
202/307-0703
ATTORNEY GENERAL ASHCROFT ANNOUNCES NATIONWIDE EFFORT
TO REINTEGRATE OFFENDERS BACK INTO COMMUNITIES
DETROIT,
MICHIGAN? ? Forty-nine states, the
District of Columbia and the Virgin Islands will share $100 million in grant
funds through the new Serious and Violent Offender Reentry Initiative, Attorney
General John Ashcroft announced today.
A total of 68 grants will be awarded to support efforts to ensure public
safety and reduce victimization by helping returning offenders become
productive members of their communities, providing education, job and life
skills training, and substance abuse treatment, while carefully monitoring
their activities after release.?
The
Serious and Violent Offender Reentry Initiative is an unprecedented
collaboration among the Departments of Agriculture, Commerce, Education, Health
and Human Services, Housing and Urban Development, Justice, Labor and Veterans
Affairs.??
?This
initiative helps provide individuals who have been released from prison the
opportunity to become productive citizens and members of society,? said
Ashcroft. ?The reentry programs aid in making sure these individuals will not
return to a life of crime.?
An
estimated 630,000 offenders were released from prison last year, with an
estimated 160,000 of those being violent offenders. The Serious and Violent
Offender Reentry Initiative will build on innovative reentry efforts in states
for both juveniles and adults with the goal that these efforts serve as
nationwide prototypes.? Communities will
utilize existing federal, state and local resources, while grant funds will be
used to address additional specific needs. Local efforts will require close
coordination among institutional and community corrections, law enforcement,
education, job training and placement, and other service providers, including
faith-and community-based organizations.
?Reentry efforts will begin while offenders
are still in correctional facilities, continue through offenders? transition
back into the community and help sustain ex-offenders through services such as
employment training and substance abuse and mental health treatment. Efforts
will be tailored to any one, or combination of, the following age groups: Youth
(ages 14‑17); Young Adult (ages 18‑24) and Adult (ages 25+).? These efforts require close coordination
among institutional corrections, law enforcement, community corrections and
other community-based service providers.
The
Serious and Violent Offender Reentry Initiative is designed to address three
stages an offender goes through when returning to the community.? The process involves education, parenting
instruction, vocational training, treatment and life skills programs while
offenders are in institutions, services and supervision as they reenter the
community and networks of agencies and individuals to support offenders as they
become productive and law-abiding members of their communities.
The
federal partners joined together to help state and local agencies navigate the
complex field of existing grant programs and to assist them in accessing,
redeploying, and leveraging those resources to support all components of a
comprehensive reentry program.
The
federal partners will fund a national evaluation of the Serious and Violent
Offender Reentry Initiative to look at the long-term effectiveness of the
program.
A
list of grantees is attached.? More
information about the Serious and Violent Offender Reentry Initiative and other
OJP programs is available on OJP?s Website at http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/.
Media should contact OJP?s Office of Congressional and Public Affairs at
202/307-0703.
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After hours contact: Adam
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SERIOUS AND VIOLENT
OFFENDER REENTRY INITIATIVE FISCAL YEAR 2002 AWARDS
STATE;
GRANTEE; AMOUNT (subject to final budget review); CONTACT; PHONE NUMBER
Alabama;
Alabama Department of Economic and Community Affairs; $1,006,075; Don H. Lee;
334/242-5820
Alabama;
Alabama Department of Youth Services; $974,006; Allen L. Peaton; 334/215-3852
Alaska;
Alaska Department of Health and Social Services; $593,000; Tony Newman;
907/465-1382
Alaska;
Alaska Department of Corrections; $1,407,000; Rhonda Lundborg; 907/465-4640?????????????????
Arizona;
Arizona Department of Juvenile Corrections; $2,000,000; Bernie Warner;
602/542-5597
Arkansas;
Arkansas Department of Community Corrections; $2,000,000; David Guntharp;
501/682-9566
California;
California Department of Corrections; $2,000,000; Christine Ianieri;
415/355-2584
California;
City of Oakland; $1,000,000; Sara B. Bedford; 510/238-6794
Colorado;
Colorado Department of Corrections; $1,988,531; Sean Ahlmeyer; 719/226-4368
Connecticut;
Connecticut Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services; $2,000,000;
Sabrina Trocchi; 860/418-6648
Delaware;
Delaware Health and Social Services; $1,993,496; Walter A. Mateja; 302/577-4465
District of
Columbia; District of Columbia Justice Grant Administration; $1,999,997;
Jennifer M. Lynn-Whaley;
202/727-0941
Florida;
Florida Department of Corrections; $1,000,000; Murray Brooks; 850/410-4342
Florida;
Florida Department Juvenile Justice; $1,000,000; Terri L. Buckley; 727/570-3352??????
Georgia;
Georgia Criminal Justice Coordinating Council; $2,000,000; Eden Freeman;
404/559-4949
Hawaii; Hawaii
Department of Public Safety; $2,000,000; Shari Y. Tasaka; 808/587-1367
Idaho; Idaho
Department of Corrections; $2,000,000; Erin N. Barbee; 208/658-2102
Illinois;
Illinois Department of Corrections; $2,000,000; Dennis Dougherty; 217/522-2666
Indiana;
Indiana Department of Corrections; $2,000,000; Rhonda Shipley; 317/234-0323
Iowa; Iowa
Department of Corrections; $2,000,000; Anne H. Brown; 515/242-5729
Kansas;
Kansas Department of Corrections; $1,000,000; Margie J. Phelps;
785/296-3128?
Kansas;
Kansas Juvenile Justice Authority; $1,000,000; Ted Martinez; 785/296-4213
Kentucky;
Kentucky Department of Juvenile Justice; $1,411,899; Libby Mills; 502/573-2738
Louisiana;
Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections; $2,000,000; Suzanne
Sharp; 225/342-6630
Maine; Maine
Department of Corrections; $1,999,936; Wayne R. Theriault; 207/287-4374
Maryland;
Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services; $2,000,000;
Cliff Burton; 410/585-3338?
Massachusetts;
Massachusetts Department of Corrections; $1,000,077; Helen Kary; 508/422-3303
Massachusetts;
Massachusetts Department of Youth Services; $999,668; Christine Kenney;
617/727-7575?????
Michigan;
Michigan Department of Corrections; $1,000,000; Jocelyn J. Fitzpatrick;
517/373-3485?
Michigan;
Michigan Family Independence Agency; $1,000,000; Darlene Edington; 517/373-7797
Minnesota;
Minnesota Department of Corrections; $2,000,000; Mark Carey; 651/642-0288
Mississippi;
Mississippi Department of Corrections; $2,000,000; Carol Kimble; 662/745-6611
Missouri;
Missouri Department of Social Services; $700,688; Dennis M. Gragg; 573/751-2799
Missouri;
Missouri Department of Corrections; $1,296,044; James Mitchell; 573/526-6435
Montana;
Montana Department of Corrections; $2,000,000; Nancy Knight; 406/444-4914
Nevada;
Nevada Department of Corrections; $1,479,007; Dorothy Nash Holmes; 775/887-3266
Nevada;
Nevada Department of Human Resources; $520,977; Gerthie Polk; 702/486-5080
New
Hampshire; New Hampshire Department of Corrections; $1,999,923; Joseph Diament;
603/625-5471
New Jersey;
New Jersey State Parole Board; $1,999,465; Melinda D. Schlager; 609/777-0171
New Mexico;
New Mexico Department of Corrections; $1,999,996; Sherry M. Helwig;
505/473-5105
New York;
New York Department Correctional Services; $999,183; Lori J. Torgerson;
518/485-5307?
New York;
New York State Office of Children and Family Services; $1,000,189; Sylvia
Rowlands; 518/474-7886
North
Carolina; North Carolina Department of Corrections; $1,300,000; Virginia Price;
919/716-3758
North Carolina;
North Carolina Department of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention;
$700,000; Michael F. Haley; 919/715-5966
North
Dakota; North Dakota Department of Corrections, Division of Juvenile Services;
$785,779; Terry Traynor; 701/328-7321
North
Dakota; North Dakota Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Division of
Field Services; $814,243; Patrick N. Bohn; 701/328-6664
Ohio; Ohio
Department of Rehabilitation and Correction; $1,998,014; Horst E. Gienapp;
614/752-1607
Oklahoma;
Oklahoma Department of Corrections; $1,000,608; Bill McCollum; 918/581-2002
Oklahoma;
Oklahoma Office of Juvenile Affairs; $997,370; Nancy E. Williams; 405/530-2838
Oregon;
Oregon Department of Corrections; $2,000,000; Tonya R Ruscoe; 503/945-9053
Pennsylvania;
Pennsylvania Department of Corrections; $1,990,990; Angela Sager; 717/731-7149
Rhode
Island; Rhode Island Department of Corrections; $1,907,014; Teresa S. Foley;
401/462-1129
South
Carolina; South Carolina Department of Corrections; $1,000,002; Bruce Burnett;
803/896-1916 ?
South
Carolina; South Carolina Department of Juvenile Justice; $999,989; Howard
Snider; 803/896-9235
South
Dakota; South Dakota Department of Corrections; $1,999,705; Jodi Heath;
605/367-5158
Tennessee;
Tennessee Department of Corrections; $1,064,000; Rae Ann Coughlin; 615/741-9854
Tennessee;
Tennessee Department of Children Services; $936,000; Diane E. Craver;
615/741-1000
Texas; Texas
Department of Criminal Justice; $1,940,963; Paul D. Brown; 936/437-6952
Utah; Utah
Department of Human Services; $1,000,000; Tom Darais; 801/538-4124
Utah; Utah
Department of Corrections; $1,000,000; Belle Brough; 801/545-5707
Vermont;
Vermont Department of Corrections; $2,000,000; John Perry; 802/241-2307
Virgin
Islands; Virgin Islands Bureau of Corrections; $1,000,000; Sonia I
Maynard-Liburd; 340/773-0295
Virginia;
Virginia Department of Corrections; $1,999,971; R. Mario Woodard; 804/674-3219
Washington;
Washington Department of Corrections; $2,000,000; Victoria Roberts;
360/753-1678
West
Virginia; West Virginia Division of Corrections; $1,000,288; Jan Chamberlain;
304/843-4141?
West
Virginia; West Virginia Division of Juvenile Services; $998,753; Deborah D.
Gillespie; 304/558-6029
Wisconsin;
Wisconsin Department of Corrections; $2,000,000; Shelley Hagan; 608/240-5917
Wyoming;
Wyoming Department of Corrections; $1,833,842; Patricia L. Odell; 307/777-5691