Supporting Individuals Working in Our Nation's Jails

• How Will You Observe National Correctional Employees Week 2012?
  In May of this year, at the close of National Correctional Employees Week, a wreath will be laid at the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial in Washington, D.C.
• Scam Directed Towards Exhibitors at AJA Conference
  "The FAIR Guide" is again sending out scam letters to our exhibitors who are planning to be with us in Reno this coming April. The "company" sends out letters that appear as though it is affiliated with AJA. The company is not! Although this year, "The FAIR Guide" did add the statement: The FAIR Guide is independent, objective and not affiliated to any organizer or marketing association.
• Former AJA President To Lead National Inmate Health Panel
  Norfolk County (Massachusetts) Sheriff’s Office Superintendent and former AJA President Peter Perroncello has been chosen to lead the National Commission on Correctional Health Care (NCCHC) Accreditation Committee.
• Continuity of Care
  According to Steven Rosenberg, President, Community Oriented Correctional Health Services (COCHS), his organization has been closely following the issue of Medicaid enrollment and coverage “pending disposition of charges.” COCHS has been working with the National Association of Counties, National Health Law Program, and George Washington University.
• Get Right With Your Taxes
  If you provide services to offenders or parolees or have a prisoner reentry program, why not include tax information to help recently released individuals. The IRS announces a new, no-cost tax educational package called "Get Right With Your Taxes," created and distributed by IRS Wage & Investment, Stakeholder Partnerships, Education and Communication to be used in offender reentry programs nationwide.
• NPR Broadcast: California's New Prison Policy Has Some Skeptics
  Starting October 1, California State prisons redirected new nonviolent felons to county facilities. The realignment is in part due to an order by the U.S. Supreme Court for the State to reduce its prison population.
• Support Funding for the Second Chance Act
  The Senate Appropriations Committee has approved an FY12 appropriations bill that would eliminate funding for the Second Chance Act. Earlier this summer, the House Appropriations Committee approved a bill that would provide $70 million for the Second Chance Act in FY12. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy has pledged to work to restore FY12 funding for the Second Chance Act when the House and Senate Appropriations Committees resolve differences between the two spending bills.

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