Community Corrections news: - House OKs ban on text-messaging while driving

House OKs ban on text-messaging while driving
KIMA TV - stay on, said Rep. Steve Conway, D-Tacoma. The bill passed 75-21 and headed to the Senate. --- The text-messaging bill is HB1214. Auto theft bill is HB1001. The body-piercing bill is HB1383. The tribal compact bill is HB1426. The community corrections

Pell City jail faces overcrowding dilemma
Daily Home Online - Just last month, the county hired a director for its new community corrections program, which is designed to move nonviolent offenders out of jails into a supervised work program that allows them to pay any restitution related to their crimes. I

Blackstone unveils plans to go public
Fort Wayne News-Sentinel - Senate Republicans on Thursday passed a $34-per-student cut for schools, then voted for hundreds of millions of dollars in cuts to local governments, community corrections, health care and other programs after deciding Gov. Jennifer Granholm's

Changes in agency not easily accepted, Clarke says More options needed
Seattle Post Intelligencer - Does the DOC need a different community corrections program? Is the program as it exists tough enough? A: It's not a matter of being tough enough, necessarily. The program needs to provide the CCOs (community corrections officers) with the necessary