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During his meeting with Sheriff Israel, according to BSO, Archbishop Wenski discussed departmental initiatives to deal with individuals experiencing homelessness or mental illness. He also learned that it is becoming more difficult to recruit police officers.
“People signing up to become police officers has dropped off in recent years,” Archbishop Wenski said. In fact, as he drove along, he noticed “some of the teenagers did not express a whole lot of respect for the police on the street.”
That’s when Harrington told him that “what he’s doing is a vocation, not just a job. That’s something that many people don’t appreciate,” Archbishop Wenski said. “They’re not doing it because of the money but because it’s a vocation of service.”
The archbishop chairs the U.S. bishops' Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development, which has urged Congress to pass measures to reform America's criminal justice system.
In a statement earlier this month, the archbishop praised the re-introduction of the bipartisan Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act of 2015 in the U.S. Senate.
The act reduces certain mandatory minimum sentences, expands so-called sentencing "safety valves," works to reduce recidivism with expanded prison-based programs, and limits solitary confinement for juvenile offenders, among other things.
"The bishops welcome this modest bipartisan effort to reform our criminal justice system,” Archbishop Wenski said in the statement. “We must try to ensure that sentences are just, while creating humane space in which individuals can restore their lives with the kind of support that reduces the chances that they will return to prison in the future. These reforms are a step in the right direction."
BREAKING: Broward police pursuit shuts I-95 lanes in Boca Raton
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Posted: 3:04 p.m. Monday, February 26, 2018
PALM BEACH GARDENS —
A Palm Beach County safe house for girls who were victims of human trafficking has closed, officials confirmed Monday.
The decision to close the safe house, known as Hope House, in January was made in favor of placing trafficking survivors into the existing foster programs of Place of Hope, a Palm Beach Gardens-based nonprofit, said Charles Bender, its chief executive.
Hope House, a collaboration between Place of Hope and the Christ Fellowship church in Palm Beach Gardens, opened in 2012 as a faith-based safe house for girls.