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Serious and Violent Offender Reentry
Initiative Grantees
West Virginia Division of Corrections (Amount: $1,000,288*)
The West Virginia Division of Corrections’ reentry program will
include academic and vocational education assessment and opportunities,
substance abuse treatment, sex offender treatment, crime victim
awareness training, cognitive restructuring, and life skills planning.
The program will also include a restorative justice component.
Funds will be used to train staff, purchase assessment instruments,
and pay overtime wages to parole officers in rural areas where
law enforcement officers are not available. The program will target
high-risk convicted felons and parolees ages 18–24. Program participation
will be monitored by the Unit Team and Parole staff. Consequences
for participants’ noncompliance may include graduated sanctions
such as loss of privileges, termination from the program, time
added to the period of incarceration, and return to a higher level
supervision of custody.
Local contact: Teresa McCourt-Cutlip, 304–558–2036, ext. 1.
West Virginia Division of Juvenile Services (Amount: $998,753*)
The West Virginia Division of Juvenile Services will expand an
existing Reentry Court Program currently being implemented in several
counties throughout West Virginia. Collaborative partnerships with
various local government agencies, community service organizations,
and faith-based organizations will be used to provide institutional
and community-based transition services to offenders ages 14–21
who are returning to the northeastern region of the state. West
Virginia’s Reentry Court Program will provide employment training
and assistance, educational training, substance abuse treatment,
mental health treatment, medical and dental assistance, community
service, community-based incentives, housing assistance, community
support services, and intensive case management.
Local contact: Deborah D. Gillespie, 304–558–6029.
[Asterisks indicate award amounts that are subject to final
review.]
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