N.C. Correctional Facility Appoints New Warden
The Division of Adult Correction and Juvenile Justice has named Timothy Maynor as the new warden of the Catawba Correctional Center in Newton.
Read moreThe Division of Adult Correction and Juvenile Justice has named Timothy Maynor as the new warden of the Catawba Correctional Center in Newton.
Read moreFunding for a new police headquarters building, fire station, fire training center and expansion to the fleet maintenance buildings was recently approved for Mooresville, a town of 38,000 located 25 miles north of Charlotte.
Read moreOvercrowding at the Pender County Jail in Burgaw has been an issue for many years costing taxpayers thousands of dollars annually to transport inmates to other facilities.
Read moreFollowing several years of planning, Brunswick County recently awarded a nearly $11 million construction contract to Montieth Construction Corporation to expand and renovate its existing courthouse in Bolivia, N.C.
Read moreThe Pender County, N.C., Board of Commissioners recently approved the hiring of Thomas Construction Group as general contractor for the Pender County Courthouse interior restoration.
Read moreConstruction continues on a project that will preserve a small piece of North Carolina’s history—a 100-year-old cast iron bell that first hung outside the courthouse nearly a century ago.
Read moreMoseley Architects of Raleigh, N.C., has been tapped to design Moore County’s new courthouse.
Read moreAUSTIN, Texas — The Texas House of Representatives and Senate have approved a pilot program that would provide inmates with mental illnesses with additional resources in social, clinical, housing and welfare services in the first weeks after release.
Read moreAUSTIN, Texas — Texas is making efforts to increase mental health care services in order to address the rising number of nonviolent inmates with mental illnesses and reduce recidivism of those inmates.
Senator Joan Huffman, R-Houston, has developed a pilot program to be carried out in Harris County Jail, which, Hauffman said, is regarded as Texas’ largest mental health facility.
Read moreNEW YORK — The Council of State Governments (CSG) Justice Center’s National Reentry Resource Center (NRRC) released a policy brief on Sept. 25, 2012, highlighting a number of states reporting significant, reductions in recidivism.
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