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Congress Approves Appropriations for Second Chance Act ($108 million), Byrne ($560 million)

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Congress Approves Appropriations for Key Criminal Justice Programs New York?The House and Senate have passed an omnibus appropriations bill (H.R. 3288) for the remainder of fiscal year 2010 that includes funding for the Department of Justice, the Department of Labor, and the Department of Health and Human Services. The bill provides $114 million to the Department of Justice for prisoner reentry, including $14 million for reentry initiatives in the Federal Bureau of Prisons and $100 million for Second Chance Act programs, including * $37 million for reentry demonstration projects under Sec. 101 of the Second Chance Act * $15 million for mentoring grants to nonprofit organizations under Sec. 211 * $10 million for reentry courts under Sec...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on December 15, 2009 (boomark / email).