New Jersey Fines Halfway Houses $45,000 Over Escapes By
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The Christie administration said on Tuesday that it had issued $45,000 in fines against New Jersey halfway houses from which nine inmates escaped in recent months, the harshest penalties ever brought against the troubled network of private operators.
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The halfway houses were fined for failing to quickly report escapees to state officials and for recording inmates who had escaped as present. In other cases, supervisors failed to keep track of inmates who had fled from work-release programs or slipped away before being sent back to prison, corrections officials said.
The inmates escaped from six different halfway houses, including two run by Community Education Centers, a company that dominates the states halfway house system and has drawn scrutiny because of its close ties to Gov. Chris Christie.
Hundreds of inmates escape from the states halfway houses each year, but authorities have previously done little to crack down on the problem. No penalties had ever been brought against halfway house operators until officials learned of The New York Timess 10-month investigation into escapes and other problems at the privately run centers, which can be as big as prisons but have little of their security.
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99th_Monkey
(19,326 posts)Nice.
Canuckistanian
(42,290 posts)And in this case, at letting inmates go free.
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