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SAM T. JOYCE .INDIAN RIVER COrWn' <br />MEMBER FLORIOA SHERIFFS ASSOCIATION <br />OFFICE PHONE 562 -WS MEMBER OF NATIONAL SHERIFFS ASSOCIATION <br />JAIL PHONE 562-4151 VERO HEAC11. FW111UA U90W <br />May 8, 1972 <br />Mr. Richard P. Bogosian <br />Chairman, Indian River County Commission <br />Indian River County <br />Vero ,"-Beach, Florida 32960 <br />Re: Work Release Program <br />Dear Mr. Bogosian: <br />It now appears feasible for Indian River County to enter the <br />Work Release Program as provided in accordance with Florida <br />Statutes 948.07. This program would enable selected prisoners <br />agreed to by the Court, the Sheriff's Department and the Florida <br />Probation and Parole Commission, to be released in a work <br />situation whereby he would leave the confinement at the Indian <br />River County jail and be allowed to maintain full time, steady <br />employment, contributing his income to his family and returning <br />a portion to be paid toward his.own confinement costs. <br />The individual so released ,under these conditions would.return <br />each night to the Indian River County jail. <br />The major factor which now allows the county to enter into this <br />program is the fact that the Sheriff's Department now has addi- <br />tional personnel to handle the'necessary additional' duties required <br />in such a programa <br />It is the feeling of all agencies involved in carrying out this <br />program that there are many benefits. There is no question but <br />that. for some individuals incarceration is of benefit in. correcting <br />anti -social behavior. The program will provide incarceration <br />without causing loss of employment, and thus placing a family on <br />Welfare for those carefully selected individuals entered into this <br />program. <br />it is the recommendation of Judge D. C. Smith, Senior Circuit <br />Judge in the Nineteenth Judicial Circuit, Sheriff Sam T. Joyce, <br />Sheriff of Indian River County, and J. Vernon Wright, District <br />Supervisor of the Florida Probation and Parole Commission, <br />that the County Commission now enter this' -,program. <br />To enter into this program the County Commission needs only to <br />make.a motion and vote affirmatively on the motion to enter <br />into the Work Release program as outlined under Florida <br />Statutes 948.07. <br />Respegffully submitted, <br />T. dee, e ff <br />Indian iver un y, Florida -1�- <br />AIAF 1 <br />