Credit: NJ Spotlight News
Hudson County officials are hoping that the increase in funding for it prisoner reentry program will allow it to sever financial ties with ICE.
A Hudson County program that helps inmates ease back into the community and address substance-abuse issues will receive $4 million more in state funds this year more than double what it received last year.
The $7 million for the Hudson County Pilot Reentry Program could also give the county the wherewithal to end a controversial agreement with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Under that deal, long-criticized by immigration advocates, the county rents jail space to the agency, which it uses to hold detainees.
‘Pretty uneventful’: Winter storm dumps up to 10 inches of snow, but Hudson County mostly avoids accidents and outages
Updated Dec 17, 2020;
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Hudson County’s first major snowstorm in more than a year came and went quietly, blanketing homes, but protecting their power, and covering streets, but not prompting collisions.
In a year that saw society shutter in favor of safety, winter storm Gail which dumped as much as 10 inches of snow in some places in the county felt more like a novelty than a disturbance a week before Christmas.
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On Thursday morning, Weehawken resident Jason Ingram was out in front of his house shoveling snow off his driveway. The storm “was pretty uneventful,” he said.