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keeps space in justice center SMN The Haywood County Board of Commissioners decided Monday not to take space away from Mountain Mediation Services in the new justice center to make room for a commissioners’ meeting room. Instead, the Criminal Justice Partnership Program will be removed from the new justice center, which is currently under construction. According to County Manager Jack Horton, the Criminal Justice Partnership Program does not mind not losing its space in the new justice center. Offenders are typically assigned to the Criminal Justice Partnership Program after conviction and are required to work with the program as part of their sentence. Mountain Mediation Services, on the other hand, actively recruits feuding parties embroiled in court cases to utilize its service to resolve their dispute through mediation rather than going through with a court trial. Workers with Mountain Mediation Services said their ability to provide these services would be hampered if they were removed from their location in new justice center, where they could work closely with the district attorney’s office and intervene in cases as they are called on the court docket. The commissioners said they want a spot in the new justice center for a county meeting room so that the public would have an excuse to go in the new building and see what their tax dollars built. |
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