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Mississippi Courts Mississippi Courts April 2014 Published by the Administrative Office of Courts Federal and state officials organize Reentry Council state and federal prosecutors an admonition to do right will and public defenders, a repre- not turn someone's life sentative of the Lieutenant around,” Judge Starrett said. Governor, legislative leaders, “We are sending people home Jackson city officials, church without the tools and without leaders, the American Civil the resources they need to Liberties Union, the NAACP succeed as law abiding citi- and the Pew Charitable Trust. zens. We are setting them up Leaders of the Department of for failure.” Mental Health and Depart- Davis, U.S. Attorney for ment of Employment Security the 45-county Southern Dis- joined the Council in April. trict of Mississippi, said about A core group of organizers 95 percent of people who are at meetings in February and sentenced to prison will get April began work to address out some day. “When people basic needs such as housing, get out...they need help with employment, education, trans- housing, they need help with portation and health care. transportation, they need help People who leave prison with employment.” U.S. District Judge Keith Starrett and Chief Justice Bill Waller Jr. often have few skills and no Department of Mental resources as well as a felony Health Executive Director Ed Officials spanning the spec- Mississippi Supreme Court record. “It is a very difficult LeGrand said, “It doesn’t ma- trum of the criminal justice were state and federal judges, time. A bus ticket and $25 and Continued, page 2 system as well as religious and civil liberties organizations began work in December on a program to help former in- mates become productive, law abiding citizens and to reduce prison recidivism. U.S. District Judge Keith Starrett, Mississippi Supreme Court Chief Justice Bill Wal- ler Jr., U.S. Attorney Greg Davis and Attorney General Jim Hood met with more than 50 people to begin work to- ward organizing a Reentry Council. In attendance at the Romano, U.S. District Judge Keith Starrett, Dr. Jimmy Porter, Correc- organizational meeting at the tions Commissioner Christopher Epps, and U.S. Attorney Greg Davis. Page 2 April 2014 Corrections Commissioner Christopher Epps, center, talks about the state’s increasing prison population. At left is Dr. Jim- my Porter, and at right, U.S. Attorney Greg Davis. ter what else you do. If you Albert Santa Cruz, Mississippi Epps said, “I'm on board a member of the State Parole don’t have a place to live, it Highway Patrol head Col. Don- 100 percent with what we are Board, said she agrees with the exacerbates other problems.” nell Berry and other MHP offi- trying to accomplish.” The state front-end approach. “When we State Parole Board Chairman cials to work out logistics for prison population has increased see them at the Parole Board, Steve Pickett said that release issuing state ID cards to in- 455 percent since the 1980s and they have been in pris- from confinement is delayed mates upon their release from the Department of Corrections on...wasting that time not really for some inmates who would prison. Corrections Commis- budget has grown 1,255 per- doing anything to prepare.” otherwise be freed because they sioner Christopher Epps asked cent. Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, have no place to go upon re- MHP to go to the prisons to About 9,500 people are re- Kentucky, Oklahoma and Tex- lease. “They are set aside be- handle applications for and leased from MDOC each year, as are among states which have cause they don't have an ad- issuance of ID cards. Santa Epps said. More than 77 per- Reentry Councils. Texas, which dress to go to....The need for a Cruz and Berry said sending cent have alcohol and drug was running out of inmate bed reentry program is dire in this staff to prison facilities was problems; 15 percent have space, was able to close some state.” preferable to having MDOC mental health problems. On prison units after it adopted the One of the stumbling blocks officers transport large num- average, their education skills comprehensive and focused to employment is something bers of soon to be released are at a sixth grade level. approach, Judge Starrett said. that has turned out to be not as inmates to MHP stations. Work toward an inmate's The Reentry Council is pat- simple as it sounds: acquiring a The Reentry Council will reentry to the community has terned after a program started valid identification card from work toward developing prac- to start from the time a person by U.S. Attorney General Eric the Department of Public Safe- tices for evaluating prisoners is sentenced, Judge Starrett Holder in 2011. The Federal ty, a birth certificate and a So- and providing appropriate reha- said. Inmates need to be di- Interagency Reentry Council, cial Security card. Prospective bilitation when they enter cor- rected into intervention which made up of 20 federal agencies, employers can’t legally hire rectional systems, and identify- will help them, not make them works to: someone without ID. ing resources and connecting worse. “Evaluation is crucial. • make communities safer by The Reentry Council at an former inmates with those re- It's not cookie-cutter,” Judge reducing recidivism and victim- April 1 meeting sat down with sources that can assist them Starrett said. ization; Commissioner of Public Safety after they leave prison. Betty Lou Jones of Meridian, • assist those who return from April 2014 Page 3 prison and jail in becoming productive citizens; Legislature passes criminal justice reform • save taxpayer dollars by low- ering the direct and collateral costs of incarceration. Gov. Phil Bryant on March fort. I will continue to work “Prisons are necessary for serious and violent offenders, U.S. Attorneys in each of the 31 signed into law House Bill with law enforcement officials 585, a comprehensive criminal to ensure the strength of Mis- but the research tells us that 94 districts nationwide have a they are not the best option for reentry coordinator. justice reform package that sissippi’s criminal justice poli- every offender,” said Chief Jeremy Sherer, Reentry Co- aims to protect public safety, cies.” Justice Waller. “HB 585 will ordinator for the Northern control corrections costs and The bill emerged from an deliver better public safety out- exhaustive audit of Mississippi’s comes by expanding research- District of Alabama, speaking restore clarity to sentencing. “We pledged to Mississippi- corrections and sentencing proven alternatives to incarcer- at the organizational meeting of systems by a bipartisan task ation, such as drug courts and ans that we would make this Mississippi’s Reentry Council, force chaired by Corrections rigorous drug treatment pro- said the growing prison popula- the ‘public safety session,’ and Commissioner Christopher grams, as well as enhancing our tion and cost to the state budg- we have worked hard to devel- Epps. The Task Force received reentry efforts to ensure of- intensive technical assistance fenders leave prison with the et are unsustainable. op this ‘Right on Crime’ re- search-based plan that is tough from The Pew Charitable support they need to get their “Alabama prisons were Trusts’ Public Safety Perfor- lives back on track.” on crime while using resources strangling every other general mance Project as part of the Speaker of the House Philip fund institution,” Sherer said. wisely where they make the Justice Reinvestment Initiative. Gunn agreed. “HB 585 is the At the same time, court dockets most impact. As a former law Pew and its partners have as- single largest improvement to were backlogged and prosecu- enforcement officer, I have no sisted two dozen states, includ- Mississippi’s criminal justice tolerance for career criminals or ing Texas, Georgia, and South system in a generation. The tors and probation officers Carolina, with similar data- violent offenders, and this legis- recommendations made by the dealt with staggering caseloads. driven analyses and consensus- task force are truly transforma- Two years of work in Ala- lation will allow Mississippi the based policy recommendations. tive and bode well for the fu- bama has produced reentry resources to hold these offend- Chief Justice Bill Waller Jr. ture of Mississippi. I applaud pilot projects. Work is under- ers accountable,” Gov. Bryant said, “I personally want to the work of everyone involved in this legislation – Task Force way to expand. “We are in the said. “I thank Lt. Gov. Reeves, thank Pew for its work on members, legislators, judges Speaker Gunn, the Legislature, House Bill 585, which I think is process of implementing better and justices, and stakeholders practices,” Sherer said. judges and justices, the Task one of the most important from across our state – for Alabama has the fourth high- Force and all of the stakehold- criminal justice reforms passed their dedication to this success- est incarceration rate in the ers who had a part in this ef- in modern history.” ful process. This was a huge undertaking.” country. Mississippi is second. Reforms are expected to Judge Starrett said., “We are avert prison growth over the over-built. Too many people next 10 years and are expected are looking for healthy inmates said Judge Starrett. Some may ler leads court involvement; to save the state at least $266 that they can put out to work. not embrace the concept imme- Attorney General Hood, law million in prison costs over the Prisons shouldn't be industrial diately, he said, recalling that enforcement; Commissioner coming decade. The legislation some people were not receptive Epps, prisons and community seeks to reserve prison beds for development.
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