Updated:Alabama Bureau of Pardons and Paroles Director Cam Ward said he expects the Perry County Reentry Education Program to eventually house about 200 clients for mental health and substance abuse treatment.
The Alabama Bureau of Pardons and Paroles is entering a $5.2 million, two-year contract with GEO Reentry Services to staff the Perry County Reentry Education Program, or PREP. The paroles bureauon U.S. 80 in Uniontown from GEO Group earlier this year for $15 million and is adding classrooms and treatment areas with an additional $4 million the Legislature appropriated for renovations.
Bureau Director Cam Ward said he expects that by the end of November about a dozen or so clients will become the first admitted to PREP for rehabilitation programs of about 90 days. Ward said he believes that could be the beginning of a major expansion of the state’s efforts to rehabilitate former inmates and help them avoid going back to prison, an essential goal in fixing
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