Community Corrections news: - County OKs pact to build health center

County OKs pact to build health center
Pueblo Chieftain - Commissioners appointed David Lucero as a sheriff's representative on the county Juvenile Community Review Board; and Beth Miller, Dayton Robinson and Darlene Alcala to the Community Corrections adults screening and advisory committee. They denied

In Brief: Police recapture escaped inmate
Texarkana Gazette - An inmate who walked off from the Arkansas Department of Community Corrections Southwest Arkansas Community Corrections Center in Texarkana was caught Thursday afternoon in Lafayette County. Blain Wiese, 35, walked off a work crew Thursday morning

Community Corrections building moves forward
Linton Daily Citizen - The Greene County Council unanimously passed a resolution Monday afternoon which is the first in the county in eventually owning the property where the new $2 million work release center is now being constructed next to the jail facility. Greene

Lawsuit: Vigo Commissioners broke antitrust laws
Tribune-Star - The commissioners finalized the Famco bid in August 2004, and construction began on the Community Corrections Work Release Center. The County Highway Department moved operations to Haythorne Avenue and the community corrections center opened in March

Agents are in their probationers' lives 24-7
Post-Bulletin - Sizer, Patty Peterson, Robyn Wood and Sarah Sommer make up the Intensive Supervised Release unit of Dodge-Fillmore-Olmsted County Community Corrections. Their job: To keep very, very close tabs on offenders coming out of prison who have been

Glenwood Springs, CO Colorado
Glenwood Post Online - In Mesa County, students have interviewed people sentenced to community corrections, an alternate sentencing to jail time for nonviolent crimes that allow them to work during the week. The same approach is planned for Garfield County. "We've