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The Santa Fe County Corrections Department was created in January of 2004. The Department provides oversight of all County Correctional programs including the Youth Development Program, the Electronic Monitoring Program, and the Adult Correctional Facility. The Department consists of approximately 80 staff, the majority of whom work at the Youth Development and Electronic Monitoring Programs. They provide supervision of approximately 775 men, women, and youthful offenders who are detained daily in Santa Fe County. The Department Director collaborates with the Santa Fe County Jail Team on many issues regarding the facilities. In addition, the Board of County Commissioners has created by resolution, the “Santa Fe County Corrections Advisory Committee” a group of local citizens composed of seven individuals from different sectors of the community.
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Sedgwick County Department of Corrections operates all corrections programs and facilities under the direct authority of the Sedgwick County Board of County Commissioners except the Adult Detention Facility programs. This involves a broad range of facilities and community-based correctional interventions necessary to promote community safety and successful supervision of assigned adult and juvenile offenders in this community.
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Located in Everett, Washington, the Snohomish County Department of Corrections is responsible for the operation of the Snohomish County Jail and theCommunity Corrections Program. The County jail has a current capacity of 1226 beds plus and additional 88 beds in the Work Release Facility.
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NEW CASTLE - Early next year the New Castle Correctional Facility will become Indiana's first privatized Department of Correction facility. It's a campaign promise come true for Gov. Mitch Daniels, who traveled to New Castle Tuesday morning, along with Correction Commissioner J. David Donahue to make the announcement.
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The mission of the DOC is to contribute to a safer Minnesota. This is done through offender management within correctional facilities and under supervision in the community. Recidivism, or an offenders’ rate of return to correctional custody for a new crime(s), is a key performance measure of community safety.
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During 2002-03 three separate youth committed suicide while in ADJC custody, which led to an investigation by the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Justice Department under the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act (CRIPA). In a Jan. 31, 2004 letter to Gov. Janet Napolitano, the Justice Department said it found that “serious deficiencies” existed within ADJC facilities that needed to be addressed involving suicidal risks and other inadequacies.
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