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Program helps prevent former inmates from returning to jail
Only 3% of people who completed the test program returned to jail
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Nearly 80% of those at the Rockbridge Regional Jail end up coming back.
Now, a partnership through TAP is going to offer support to find work, housing and transportation once they are out of jail.
This is the first time leaders have done this.
“This is our first shot at actually making a positive impact in this particular area and if we do that, I feel confident that we will have positive results,” said Derek Alamarode, superintendent of Rockbridge Regional Jail.
Eight years after moving into her Old Southwest apartment, Roanoke resident Rhenda Milman hopes a rent relief application or a long-awaited backlog of unemployment payments due to her will clear an outstanding balance with the landlord.
With a court hearing scheduled next week, Milman is one of hundreds of city residents facing the possibility of eviction. Although a recently extended federal order has stopped landlords from evicting pandemic-impacted tenants for now, the moratorium will end eventually â and tenants will still be responsible for paying all of their back rent.
âTrouble with unemployment,â Milman said. âIâm still waiting for months. Iâve not been able to get in touch with anyone from the unemployment office.â
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