New York City will spend $36.8 million on social services for repeat offenders, encouraging them to stay out of trouble and show up for court as they await trial.
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“These are the tools that we have been talking about with our partners that will really move the needle in supporting the population,” Logan said Friday on WNYC’s Brian Lehrer Show, where she publicly detailed the program for the first time. The plan is to expand the program later. Logan said at any given time there are about 9,000 people who have been arrested for felonies while their cases play out on other felony charges. This cohort also has at least three criminal charges over the prior five years, and multiple warrants for failing to appear in court.
Case managers might meet such individuals on the morning they go to court, she said, to accompany them and make sure they don’t subject themselves to a warrant for missing an appearance. “Additional hands-on [attention] will allow that population of people to be much more successful as they move through the criminal justice system,” she said.
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