Council encumbers $300K for jail chaplaincy substance-use program with reporting requirements
Council approved $300,000 from litigation-settlement funds to expand a chaplaincy-based substance-use program in the jail, with an initial $40,000 to be used this year and annual sheriff certification and reporting required before subsequent yearly payments.
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Commissioner Turpin asked Council to reserve $300,000 from restricted opioid-settlement funds to expand jail chaplaincy programming focused on substance use treatment. Turpin said the chaplaincy program would scale current cohorts and provide more intensive curriculum-based services to 80–100 inmates in the general population.
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