Pennsylvania Department of Corrections Request For Applications For Program To Divert Short Minimum Sentence Offenders From State Prison

This Request for Applications from the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections (PA DOC) was released on December 30, 2015. The PA DOC seeks county government entities to demonstrate effective diversion strategies for offenders who are one year or less from their minimum sentence date – short minimum (short-min) inmates. County applications are due by February 1, 2016. In their applications, the counties must provide a detailed plan outlining the short-min diversion strategies they intend to use and to estimate the impact they expect to have in terms of the number of short min admissions diverted from state prison . . .