Pennsylvania Corrections Department Seeks County Applications To Divert Offenders With Short Minimum Sentences From State Incarceration

On December 30, 2015, the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections (DOC) released a request for applications to county governments for a new 12-month grant program to divert short minimum sentence felony offenders away from incarceration in state prison. The DOC defines short minimum (short-min) inmates as those whose minimum sentence date is one year or less from their admission date to state prison. About $1.5 million in funding is available; the funding was generated by savings realized by reductions in the prison population since 2012, when Pennsylvania enacted the Justice Reinvestment Initiative (JRI).

County applications are due by . . .