Addressing Needs of Women in the Criminal Justice System - County Executive News Release 1/15/2014

Poughkeepsie…Dutchess County Executive Marcus J. Molinaro is pleased to announce two recent grant awards to address the needs of female offenders, one of the key objectives outlined in the Criminal Justice System Needs Assessment report issued in 2012 by the Dutchess County Criminal Justice Council (CJC).   The Dutchess County Office of Probation and Community Corrections has been awarded one of two national grants from the National Resource Center on Justice Involved Women for training and technical assistance to implement gender-responsive approaches to pretrial screening and services.   Project More, a community agency that Dutchess County Government contracts with to provide its transitional housing program, has been awarded a new Alternative to Incarceration (ATI) grant totaling $450,000 from the New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services (DCJS) and will work in partnership with the Office of Probation and Community Corrections to implement a Women’s Reporting Center that will provide evidence based case management and other services for female offenders in Dutchess County.