Bureau of Prisons ending contracts with 16 halfway houses

[applegrove]

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2017/11/20/politics/bureau-of-prisons-mark-inch-jeff-sessions/index.html

By Eli Watkins, CNN 

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CNN)The Bureau of Prisons is cutting off funding for halfway houses throughout the country, saving money the bureau says it needs at the expense of what reform advocates say are vital programs to help prisoners transition effectively and safely out of the corrections system.

Some 16 facilities around the country have seen or will see their contracts with the federal prison system end. The cuts are coming weeks into the tenure of newly minted Bureau of Prisons Director Mark Inch, whom Attorney General Jeff Sessions tapped earlier this year to lead the federal prison system. Inch, a retired Army major general, hails from the military's corrections and law enforcement system.

Halfway houses, or "residential re-entry centers" in federal prison lingo, help manage the transition for federal prisoners from incarceration to freedom. According to the Bureau of Prisons, the facilities "provide a safe, structured, supervised environment, as well as employment counseling, job placement, financial management assistance and other programs and services."

Kara Gotsch, director of strategic initiatives for The Sentencing Project, a criminal justice reform group, said the cutback won't necessarily mean that prisoners will go straight from prison to the outside world, but that it could diminish the time they spend getting acclimated to post-prison life.

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[mucifer]

1. It seems that anything evil we can imagine they are in the process of doing.

[Aristus]

2. Bastards.

So many of my patients come to me through the halfway houses.

How are they going to be able to transition to the outside without the help of halfway houses?

[jmowreader]

3. I think you just answered your own question, sir

Trump doesn't WANT them to transition to the outside. He wants them to get arrested again as soon as they're released, because Trump doesn't want anyone to ever leave prison.

[Aristus]

4. Yeah, I know.

The private prison industry needs raw material...

[Wounded Bear]

6. Clients...

they are clients. Need to keep them coming back.

[jmowreader]

8. We cant ignore the public prisons

In your more Republican areas, a decrease in people going to jail means your DA and judges are falling down on the job and we need new ones. It couldn’t possibly mean fewer people are committing crimes.

[dembotoz]

5. Science says it works so u can't have that

[Wounded Bear]

7. That would be like taxing the drug companies to fund treatment programs...

[Solly Mack]

9. K&R

[mercuryblues]

10. 1/2 way houses are often

a criteria for being released on probation. Without having a place to go, non-violent and drug offenders stay in prison longer.
de-funding 1/2 way houses is not a cost effective measure as it costs more to house someone in prison than in a group home setting. Then again that is the goal of private prisons. $$$$$$

[applegrove]

11. Not to mention an increased return to crime if they don't have support

upon their release.