(DOWNLOAD) "United States Department of Education Update (Correctional Education Association) (Report)" by Journal of Correctional Education * Book PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: United States Department of Education Update (Correctional Education Association) (Report)
- Author : Journal of Correctional Education
- Release Date : January 01, 2009
- Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,Law,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 64 KB
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Detailed information on the proposed 2010 federal budget reflecting priorities of a new administration has been anxiously anticipated and is being released just as I must submit my final text for this Journal. Review of these budget documents reveals Second Chance Act funding in the Department of Justice's Office of Justice Programs--a proposed increase from $25 million in 2009 to $100 million in 2010. These dollars would support the Adult and Juvenile Offender Demonstration Projects, Mentoring Grants to Nonprofit Organizations, and a National Adult and Juvenile Offender Resources Center. An additional $13.8 million is included in the administration's proposed budget to fund a new Inmates Skills Development Program in the Bureau of Prisons, an initiative also called for in the Second Chance Act. All together, $88.8 million of new funding is included to implement the Second Chance Act, an initiative long and actively supported by the Correctional Education Association. Please note that this is the proposed budget being submitted to Congress for further deliberation and action with a scheduled implementation date of October 1, 2009. ("U.S. Department of Justice FY 2010 Budget Request," U.S. Department of Justice web site, May 7, 2009.) With the notable exception of the Federal Bureau of Prisons, prisons and detention facilities are primarily State and locally operated and financed facilities. They have not traditionally garnered extensive federal interest, but this may be changing. Virginia Senator Jim Webb provides an interesting example. When he appeared on the stage at the National Press Club on December 5, 2008 for the release of a paper by Harvard Sociologist Bruce Western titled "From Prison to Work, A Proposal for a National Prisoner Reentry Program," many of us in the audience expected to hear this co-sponsor of the Second Chance Act open the day's meeting with brief and highly scripted remarks repeating common statistics and arguments pertaining to the urgency of enhanced prisoner rehabilitation and reentry efforts. Instead, Senator Webb spoke at length and took questions from the audience. He shared personal experiences and perceptions related to criminal justice based largely on his military career. His strong personal statements clearly reflected his concern about the implications of criminal justice issues on our national health and prosperity. He expressed special concern about the status of America's prisons, and frankly both surprised and woke up his audience.