Announcement for 12/16/09
Congress Approves Funding for Key Criminal Justice Programs
Last week, both the House and the Senate passed an omnibus appropriations bill (H.R. 3288) for the remainder of fiscal year 2010 that includes funding for the Department of Justice, the Department of Labor, and the Department of Health and Human Services. The bill includes $12 million for the Mentally Ill Offender Treatment and Crime Reduction Act (MIOTCRA) and $114 million to the Department of Justice for prisoner reentry, including $14 million for reentry initiatives in the Federal Bureau of Prisons and $100 million for Second Chance Act programs. For more information on MIOTCRA, please
click here. For more information on Second Chance Act programs, please
click here.
