{"id":14264,"date":"2014-01-13T14:42:54","date_gmt":"2014-01-13T19:42:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=14264"},"modified":"2014-01-14T09:29:47","modified_gmt":"2014-01-14T14:29:47","slug":"one-way-nys-is-funding-reducing-the-madness-of-incarceration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2014\/01\/13\/one-way-nys-is-funding-reducing-the-madness-of-incarceration\/","title":{"rendered":"One way NYS is funding &#8220;reducing the madness of incarceration&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Note: A more complete treatment of this story by Brian Mann can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northcountrypublicradio.org\/news\/story\/23760\/20140114\/watertown-program-helps-keep-people-out-of-prison\">here<\/a>. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>The state has awarded the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.watertownurbanmission.com\/\">Watertown Urban mission<\/a> $40,850 to help cover the costs of its Bridge Program, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.watertowndailytimes.com\/article\/20140113\/NEWS03\/701139941\">the Watertown Daily Times reports<\/a>. The program, one of 23 across the state to receive funding under a competitive grant program, supports alternative to incarceration detention programs (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.watertowndailytimes.com\/article\/20140113\/NEWS03\/701139949\">here&#8217;s more about The Bridge program<\/a>)\u00a0 Andrew Mangione told the paper that funding from the state since the 1980s has been &#8220;inconsistent&#8221;, and that this money restores it to &#8220;levels where it&#8217;s been.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The funding comes at a time when New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is focusing new energy on what, in last week&#8217;s State of the State address, he called &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.northcountrypublicradio.org\/news\/story\/23720\/20140109\/cuomo-quot-reducing-the-madness-of-an-incarceration-society-quot\">the madness of an incarceration society&#8221;<\/a>. The state has eliminated 5,500 prison beds, the governor said, but lamented that &#8220;there&#8217;s a revolving door where 40 percent of the people who are released from prison wind up back in prison.&#8221; State Sen. Betty Little acknowledged to reporter Natasha Haverty for that story that many of the North Country&#8217;s prisons have lost the vocational and educational programs that were designed to help prevent such recidivism.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Note: A more complete treatment of this story by Brian Mann can be found here. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[13574,5614,11550,9975,11480,13573],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14264"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/75"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14264"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14273,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14264\/revisions\/14273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}