Carbon submits probation grants
Carbon County is hoping to secure over $180,000 in state and federal funds to help with programs in the adult probation office.
On Thursday, the county commissioners approved two actions to apply for $181,962.
The first is an application for match-free funds in the amount of $103,552 from the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency for the county’s Intermediate Punishment Program.
The money would be used to cover the salary and benefits of an additional adult probation officer; as well as equipment rental and monitoring offenders.
The second is an application to PCCD for Byrne Justice Assistance Grant Local Initiative funding in the amount of $78,410 in federal funds. The money, if secured, will be used to hire another adult probation officer who will be assigned to the correctional facility to coordinate a pretrial program and a new prior record module within the adult probation department’s offender management system.
Officials said that currently, probation officers, in addition to their normal caseloads, are the people doing the pretrial operations, gathering the information that needs to be obtained.
