{"id":15716,"date":"2014-04-21T14:43:46","date_gmt":"2014-04-21T18:43:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=15716"},"modified":"2014-04-21T14:44:55","modified_gmt":"2014-04-21T18:44:55","slug":"warren-county-recognized-for-keeping-county-jail-inmates-off-unemployment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2014\/04\/21\/warren-county-recognized-for-keeping-county-jail-inmates-off-unemployment\/","title":{"rendered":"Warren County recognized for keeping county jail inmates off unemployment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2014\/04\/WarrenCountyJailMap.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-large wp-image-15717\" alt=\"WarrenCountyJailMap\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2014\/04\/WarrenCountyJailMap-450x380.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"380\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2014\/04\/WarrenCountyJailMap-450x380.jpg 450w, https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2014\/04\/WarrenCountyJailMap-150x126.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2014\/04\/WarrenCountyJailMap-300x253.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2014\/04\/WarrenCountyJailMap.jpg 781w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a>The <a href=\"http:\/\/poststar.com\/news\/local\/state-recognizes-county-for-role-in-keeping-jail-inmates-off\/article_af1ef022-c7ef-11e3-aeaf-001a4bcf887a.html\">Glens Falls Post-Star is reporting<\/a> that New York state is recognizing Warren County for having a system to keep county jail inmates from collecting unemployment benefits. The state comptroller&#8217;s office found last year that in five counties they studied (including Warren County), inmates received $325,000 in unwarranted unemployment payments.<\/p>\n<p>The county sheriff&#8217;s office&#8217;s information technology director, Michael Colvin, developed a program that allows the jail&#8217;s inmate roster to communicate with the state Department of Labor to let the agency know of any inmates who might be receiving unemployment.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, the comptroller&#8217;s office study found inmates were continuing to receive unemployment by making phone calls from jails; the office has recommended counties set their jail phone systems to block calls to DOL numbers. It also found that it&#8217;s taking the DOL up to four weeks to discontinue unemployment benefits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Glens Falls Post-Star is reporting that New York state is recognizing Warren County for [&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":[10,14463,9975,12691,6340],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15716"}],"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=15716"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15721,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15716\/revisions\/15721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}