Officials outline UP Community Corrections program; county may join without fee
County staff and a judge heard a presentation that the Upper Peninsula Community Corrections program can expand to Houghton County at no cost; the program uses pre-trial supervision, grant-funded electronic monitoring, and reports a roughly 70% completion rate for participants avoiding re-incarceration in cited examples.
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Trevor Kadlec told commissioners that the UP Community Corrections program currently includes Marquette, Alger and Dickinson counties and is open to adding Iron County and potentially Houghton, Baraga and Keweenaw counties at no cost to joining jurisdictions. Kadlec described program tools—pre‑trial supervision to help manage jail capacity, random drug screening that requires a local testing location, and electronic monitoring paid through WUPPDR grants (primarily GPS house tethers).
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