{"id":105222,"date":"2021-02-09T17:30:14","date_gmt":"2021-02-09T22:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=105222"},"modified":"2021-02-17T15:41:13","modified_gmt":"2021-02-17T20:41:13","slug":"lamont-mcclure-meets-with-the-lehigh-valley-justice-institute-about-ncp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=105222","title":{"rendered":"Lamont McClure meets with the Lehigh Valley Justice Institute about NCP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>Lamont McClure met with members of the\u00a0Lehigh Valley Justice Institute\u00a0on Tuesday, Feb. 9<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0to discuss efforts to reduce the inmate population at the Northampton County Prison (NCP) and initiatives to contain the spread of COVID-19.<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>\u201cI want to thank Marvin Boyer and the other Board members of the\u00a0Lehigh Valley Justice Institute\u00a0for meeting with me today,\u201d says Lamont McClure. \u201cThis meeting is just another example of our commitment to being as transparent as possible as we try to do our small part to crush the pandemic.\u201d<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>The Department of Corrections began working with the District Attorney\u2019s Office, the Public Defender and the Courts in April 2020 to reduce incarcerations. One, by identifying individuals who may be candidates for bail reductions for pending charges or probation violation detainers in order to release them and two, by identifying non-violent offenders for furloughs. Non-violent offenders can be released from the Prison for a certain period of time which can be extended by an Order of Court if circumstances require. During the furloughs, individuals are required to check in regularly with Corrections officers. When the furlough ends, individuals must return to NCP and serve the balance of time they were supposed to be confined. Currently, thirty non-violent inmates are out on extended furlough.<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>Since the beginning of the pandemic, 172 inmates have tested positive. One is currently in quarantine. Fifty employees have tested positive since March 2020. All have completed their quarantine periods and returned to work.<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nInformation provided to TVL by:<br \/>\nBecky Bartlett<br \/>\nDeputy Director of Administration<br \/>\nNorthampton County Government Center<br \/>\n669 Washington Street<br \/>\nEaston, PA 18042<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.northamptoncounty.org\/\">https:\/\/www.northamptoncounty.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Lamont McClure met with members of the\u00a0Lehigh Valley Justice Institute\u00a0on Tuesday, Feb. 9th\u00a0to discuss efforts to reduce the inmate population at the Northampton County Prison (NCP) and initiatives to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=105222\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lamont McClure meets with the Lehigh Valley Justice Institute about NCP<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":105223,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[69,5738,482],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-valley","category-northampton-county","category-press-release-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/lv-justice.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105222"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=105222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/105223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=105222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=105222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=105222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}