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NY Cuts Funding for Treatment Programs Aimed at People Who Have Been Incarcerated

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

N.Y. Cuts Funding for Treatment Programs Aimed at Ex-Offenders November 10, 2008 Massive state budget cuts are leaving some New York ex-convicts without addiction treatment, the New York Times reported Nov. 7. The state Division of Parole will be ending its drug-treatment programs at the end of November. In addition, the Department of Corrections did not renew an annual contract with prominent drug-treatment facility, Stay'n Out that aids ex-convicts in their transition from prison to communities. A total of $8.6 million in contracts has been cut. A spokesperson said that the corrections department will continue funding a drug-treatment program inside prisons, which serves 11,000 inmates, costing the state $20 million a year ? the more "cost effective" alternative, according to Kriss...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on November 12, 2008 (boomark / email).