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Nonviolent city offenders to get house arrest
TweetYOUNGSTOWN —The city signed a one-year contract today to divert some nonviolent prisoners from the Mahoning County jail to house arrest in an effort to save money.
The board of control — consisting of Mayor Jay Williams, Law Director Iris Torres Guglucello and Finance Director David Bozanich — approved the contract with Community Corrections Association Inc., a Youngstown company, that is retroactive to last Saturday.
The city saves money by diverting nonviolent offenders to house arrest from the county jail, where the city is charged if it sends more than 71 inmates to the jail.
The contract approved is for $40,000 annually. It also calls for the city to pay $4 a prisoner a day to CCA, up to $73,000 if CCA monitors the maximum number of prisoners, 50, every day of the year.
That is highly unlikely, said Anthony Farris, the city’s deputy law director.
During the past three months, CCA has monitored significantly less than 50 city inmates a day, Farris said.
For the complete story, read Friday’s Vindicator or Vindy.com
Comments
TECHNICALLY THEY SHOULD BE IN THEIR HOMES, NOT ON THE STREET.
Im sure that sitting on their couches playing video games and smoking blunts and drinkin 40's is going to rehabilitate them so they wont go absolutely ape shiit crazy as soon as they lose their ankle bracelet. Brilliant deduction, peanuthead.
It will probably lead to a hell of a lot more welfare babies too if these crackheads are stuck at home callin dey beyatches all day. build more jails, create more jobs, and lock the dumb hood rats up.
Very fine idea ! The will boost the GNP in the city as the crack trade yields a lot of revenue. Being locked in jail would kill their business. So you ask what if the weren't sellers but users? It makes little difference. Being consumers and locked up makes them unavailable to buy and it cuts back on the sellers profits.