Re-entry efforts, to assist incarcerated people depart jail in a secure, productive place, proceed on the Union County Sheriff’s Workplace, Sheriff Ricky Roberts stated this month.
Roberts on Dec. 15 requested the Union County Quorum Courtroom for permission to manage a two-year grant secured for the UCSO by the SHARE Basis. The $55,000 per yr grant pays for salaries and tools for 2 re-entry coordinators, the sheriff stated.
“We have really bought a peer restoration specialist. We do not pay her, SHARE’s paying her proper now, however they went after a federal grant for $55,000 a yr to pay her wage plus a male peer assist individual’s, to return in and train lessons to our inmates,” Roberts stated.
Re-entry is a part of the social and neighborhood focus space within the SHARE Basis’s Violence Intervention Plan, which is a long-term effort to scale back violence in the neighborhood by offering human and materials sources to applications that handle root causes of violence.
Efforts to assist inmates on the Union County Jail put together for his or her launch have been ongoing for the final a number of years via varied applications. Earlier this yr, Nicole Smith started working with girls within the jail utilizing a curriculum known as “Getting Forward Whereas Getting Out,” which Smith stated earlier this yr helps give a brand new perspective and presents life expertise lessons with topics together with funds, substance abuse prevention and fatherhood..
Roberts stated Smith will proceed her work on the jail and the SHARE Basis will rent a second, male peer restoration specialist to work with male inmates.
“We’re attempting to establish the issue, whether or not or not it’s anger administration, or drug or alcohol dependency — let’s assault that drawback and get them off the medication or anger, attempt to discover a answer so we do not have these repeat offenders,” Roberts stated.
The UCSO should administer the grant, however the SHARE Basis will observe inmates’ success upon leaving the jail and write experiences on it, Roberts stated. Then, in 2024 after the grant runs out, will probably be as much as the Quorum Courtroom to resolve whether or not to proceed to assist that re-entry program.
“They need to sustain with the recidivism charges and all that,” Roberts stated. “That is two years down the street, so by then we must always know whether or not it is working or not.”
Smith and the opposite peer restoration specialist will keep in contact with inmates after they depart jail and assist them to get jobs in the event that they want it, or driver’s licenses.
“And we have gotten onboard with a few the circuit court docket judges, in order that they could can divert a few of these to applications, allow them to undergo that in hopes of — you realize, getting them via some applications, discovering out what their drawback is, why they re-offend and hopefully assist them with that,” the sheriff stated.
The Quorum Courtroom agreed to let Roberts administer the grant and listen to a progress replace on the re-entry program sooner or later.
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