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Pretrial services reports growth in MacArthur capstone-supported supported-release program; participants show high court-appearance rates
Summary
Pretrial services told commissioners the MacArthur Foundation capstone grant has enabled expansion of a supported-release program that connects defendants to case management and services; participants show high court-appearance rates and low new-arrest rates.
Aaron Stormberger, pretrial-services manager, briefed commissioners on Oct. 28 about Spokane County's capstone grant from the MacArthur Foundation and the county's supported-release program, which relaunched March 3 after operations shifted into county pretrial services.
Stormberger said the MacArthur award enabled the county to expand eligibility and retool operations. He told commissioners the program is voluntary and now permits referral of any defendant in district court to the supported-release program (previously…
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