Community Corrections news: - Work-release site is focus of state probe

Work-release site is focus of state probe
Seattle Times - Larry Fehr, senior vice president for corrections and re-entry services for Pioneer, a nonprofit that operates 13 community-corrections and residential-re-entry programs in the state, said concerns arose in December after an employee received a ...

State releases 83 parole violators, no room in King County jails (The Olympian)
SEATTLE -- Eighty-three felons who were locked up after being accused of violating the terms of their release from state prison have been set free for lack of room in King County's two jails, authorities confirmed.

Officer charged, suspended with pay
Crookston Daily Times - A criminal complaint was filed today in Polk County against Crookston Police officer Donald Rasicot, who faces three charges arising from an alleged assault at Tri-County Community Corrections last August. According to a release from the City of ...

Criminal appeals court sends Lauderdale Co. case back for ...
State Gazette - Henning filed an appeal in November 2006 asking for the appeals court look at the double jeopardy allegation, and to reduce the 10-year sentence and allow him to serve in a community corrections program. The rest of this article can be read by ...

Lake County Community Corrections director resigns
NWITimes.com - CROWN POINT | The first and only director of the Lake County Community Corrections program has resigned amid allegations of sexual harassment, county officials said. Robert Hinojosa has left the program he built from a 16-bed work release center in ...

83 felons freed as state uses too much jail space
Seattle Times - A significant number of the offenders had been arrested because they had missed mandatory appointments with community corrections officers, said a spokeswoman for the union that represents the officers. Other violations included failing to attend ...