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ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS Action Agenda Item No. ~_ ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT Meeting Date: May 18, 1999 SUBJECT: Orange-Chatham Alternative Sentencing CJPP Contract DEPARTMENT: Manager's Office PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/1~ BUDGET AMENDMENT: (Y/1~ ATTACHMENT(S): Contract INFORMATION CONTACT: Sharron Siler TELEPHONE NUMBERS: - -ext. 2300 Hillsborough 732-8181 Chapel Hill 968-4501 Durham 688-7331 Mebane 227-2031 PURPOSE: To continue pre-trial release and day reporting center services administered with Criminal Justice Partnership Program grant funds. BACKGROUND: Since FY 1995-96, Orange County has served as the fiscal agent for Criminal Justice Partnership Program (CJPP) funds allocated for Orange and Chatham Counties. The Orange-Chatham CJPP Advisory Board is responsible for identifying and monitoring programs designed to enhance the local criminal justice system. -These community-based programs are targeted only to offenders sentenced to intermediate sanctions with the goals of: (a) reducing drug and alcohol use; (b) reducing recidivism; and (c) impacting probation violations/revocations. The programs funded for Orange and Chatham counties include apre-trial release program and a satellite substance abuse center. Both programs are operated through contractual arrangements with Orange-Chatham Alternative Sentencing, Inc. The pre-trial release program helps to expedite appropriate releases from the Orange and Chatham County jails. By doing so, the program provides the counties with savings associated with jail bed costs. The pre-trial release program expedites information related to inmates resulting in approximately 60 direct releases to the program and a minimum of another 60 indirect releases per year. The program allows the offender to maintain responsibilities in the community and is thereby better prepared at sentencing to enter treatment and/or support his or her family financially and emotionally. The satellite substance abuse center, known as the First Step Sanctions Center, is located in Carrboro. The center serves as a special condition of probation and assists approximately 40 intermediate offenders per year. The center provides the offender and judiciary with access to structured treatment including: substance abuse treatment and education; stress management; anger management; problem solving skills; communication skills; assertiveness training; and personal goal setting.