Youngstown council approves pact with CCA

YOUNGSTOWN — City council agreed today to renew a contract to place some nonviolent prisoners on house arrest.

Council approved the one-year deal with the Community Corrections Association, a Youngstown company, retroactive to Nov. 1, 2009.

The legislation permits the city to spend up to $120,000 annually on the CCA house-arrest contract.

But the city has paid $137,240 to CCA during the first 18 months of a previous deal.

The new contract calls for the city to pay $40,000 annually to CCA plus $4 a day for each defendant in the house-arrest program — provisions identical to the old deal.

Those on house arrest are nonviolent offenders, charged or convicted of charges such as driving without a license or with a suspended license.

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