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"This means we will be able to make better decisions
about inmates and enhance public safety.

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This network collects booking and release information in near real time from
over 1,000 jails and prisons across the United States and currently tracks
more than 66 percent of the offenders held in the nation 's county jails and
state prisons.

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Rendell signed into law in
2004."
Secretary Beard said the department's re-entry initiatives help offenders
upon their return home following incarceration .
JusticeXchange is a national integrated database of current and historical
booking information supplied via the Appriss Data Network(TM), the nation's
largest privately managed integrated justice system. After logging onto the
secure website, JusticeXchange users can determine the custody status of any
offender, view an offender's previous booking and charge information, create
photo lineups for identification by victims or witnesses, post "watches" for
individuals wanted for questioning , view incident reports on troublesome
inmates, and read comments and cautions from parole and probation supervisors.

This includes halfway houses, parole programs, prisons, and probation programs.

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An additional $15. Appriss(R) Inc.

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"The seamless flow of information will not only save money, but it will
also reduce instances of information not being shared between the agencies,"
Secretary Beard said.
Department of Justice .

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The department is requesting a budget increase of 3.pa. Booking data from all county jails in North Carolina is
reported to Appriss for SAVAN.

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Department officials anticipate that 1,000 inmates a year will go through
the program by 2009. The initiatives include
upgrading vocational equipment to match jobs available in the community;
upgrading and increasing the availability of computer-based training for
inmates; and, the ongoing use of programs that help inmates recognize and
address criminal thinking, coping skills and drug and alcohol addictions.

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The department is planning to open 920 new beds at four institutions
statewide .

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Beard, Ph.5 million will be transferred from the
Manufacturing Fund to augment the state budget .S.
Other innovative products and services include AlertXpress(TM), a high-
speed notification service for criminal justice agencies, and VINE Protective
Order, which notifies crime victims when a protective order has been served on
a respondent.

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"SIP will make a positive impact on the length of stay of some less-
serious offenders," Secretary Beard said. "This legislation provides for the
certainty of incarceration, but for a shorter period with an emphasis on
having offenders successfully address the drug and alcohol problems that were
a factor in causing them to offend.

state., Durham County law enforcement
professionals will soon have immediate access to information about offenders
held in jails across the country. "The JusticeXchange system is an excellent tool
for Durham's law enforcement professionals.

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The result of this intensive programming
is the reduction of the likelihood that they will recidivate.us. Its flagship product, VINE, is available in
more than 1,500 communities in 39 states and two Canadian provinces.

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Rendell's proposed 2006-07 budget will allow the Department of
Corrections to continue focusing on its core mission of maintaining public
safety, while allowing for initiatives to enhance security, operations and
programs.

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"This budget proposal is a strong one that allows the Department of
Corrections to keep pace with the ever-changing environment in which we work,
while allowing for the successful sharing of information and development of
re-entry programs for inmates," Beard said.

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Individuals interested in reading the secretary's testimony should visit
the Department of Corrections' website at http: //www.
"Having access to information on offenders housed in our own community and
across the country will help us to detect, prevent, and solve crimes," Durham
County Sheriff Worth L., Appriss provides
automated notification services to victims of Federal crimes through the U.

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Research on corrections.

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Instead of returning technical parole violators to state prisons, one
initiative, the secretary said, would divert low -risk offenders who violate
the conditions of their parole to programs in the department's community
corrections centers.
Additionally, the corrections secretary highlighted a number of efforts
focusing on re-entry and aftercare efforts, such as working with:
-- The Department of Labor + Industry and its career link program to help
inmates get jobs;
-- PennDOT and the Social Security Administration to see that inmates
have identification for employment and benefit purposes;
-- The Department of Public Welfare and the SSI to ensure that inmates
with serious medical and/or mental health problems have benefits to
enable them to receive critical services upon release; and,
-- The Veterans Administration to make certain that inmates who qualify
for, and have a need, can access services.
The Appriss Data Network supports the North Carolina Statewide Automated
Victim Information and Notification program (SAVAN), also an Appriss product.
Partnering with a team led by AT+T Government Solutions Inc.

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will provide
JusticeXchange(TM) -- the nation's largest real-time "who's-in-jail " database
-- to the Durham County North Carolina Sheriff's Office, the Durham Police
Department , the Prosecuting Attorney's Office, Duke University Police, North
Carolina Central University Police , and the Durham County Adult Probation and
Parole Department.

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Another initiative would consolidate the agencies'
information technology programs under the Department of Corrections to better
enable the agencies to work with an automated data system under development
that will provide access one system and manage every aspect of an offender's
incarceration and supervision without the need for data entry duplication.

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, told the House Appropriations Committee today that Governor
Edward G.

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6 percent, or $48.2 million worth of new cellblocks.
"This new capacity is necessary to support a growing inmate population,"
Secretary Beard said, while adding that the inmate population grew by 1,481
inmates in the last year and is projected to grow by another 552 inmates in
2006.
Secretary Beard said the commonwealth could reduce the inmate population
through the implementation of the State Intermediate Punishment (SIP) Act,
which the legislature passed and Governor Edward G.
Secretary Beard also discussed collaborative efforts with the Parole
Board.Durham County first to use integrated justice database to help track offenders

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