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OH: Gov. signs bill to bring faith-based groups in to work with prisoners being released

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Associated Press, Mar 18, 2008 Faith groups to help inmates being released from state prisons By JOHN McCARTHY Associated Press Writer COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- Any assistance inmates can get before being released from prison is helpful and a bill now awaiting Gov. Ted Strickland's signature will bring faith-based groups and other volunteers into the mix, the state's prisons chief said Tuesday. The help is needed more than ever because the Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections must trim $74 million from its budget over the next 15 1/2 months, including $14 million over the next 3 1/2 months, because of an expected shortfall of at least $733 million in the budget year beginning in July. The Ohio House passed the final bill last week and on Tuesday sent it to Strickland, who is expected to sign it, his spokesman Keith Dailey said...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on March 20, 2008 (boomark / email).