Indianapolis Recorder, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 September 2005 — Page 3

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DOC ► Continued from Page 1 ate more effectively and efficiently,” said Fran Osburn, superintendent of the Indianapolis Juvenile Facility. For nearly 100 years Westside residents have classified the site formerly known as Indiana Girls Schools as troubled young women serving time and reentering society. Now, these residents will readjust their living space to welcome troubled young males. “We have had meetings with the neighborhood associations ex-

plaining our plan for the actual site and they are receptive of it,” Brown told the Recorder. “It’s either we use the building or allow it to go to waste and the other option was to house adult males or females, but it was necessary to put the juveniles together.” Plainfield serving adult males With 97 percent of adult prisoners in the DOC returning to society, the need to prepare these adults for reentry was necessary. The

Plainfield facility will gear its mission toward assisting adult males closer to reentry into society who are approaching the end of their sentencing. “In the past, the department has done a poor job assisting offenders with reentry,” Donahue said. “No longer can we just escort them to the prison door and present them with a bus ticket and a check for $75, with no legal ID to allow them to cash it, and expect them to succeed.”

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BMV ► Continued from Page 1 Edgewater Systems for Balanced Living Inc. has agreed to house BMV services in Gary. The office will also eventually feature a selfservice terminal for vehicle registration renewals. Silverman said the BMV’s goal is to make transactions with the department as easy as possible, so it will continue to encourage renewals through the mail or the Internet. If customers need to visit a BMV license branch, they may conduct transactions at any BMV location, no matter the town, city or county. The Gary Branch of the NAACP wants an apology from Silverman for what the NAACP says were “offensive and disrespectful” comments he made during a recent public hearing. Silverman referred to members of a mostly Black audience Aug. 17 as having a “city mentality,” which many took as a racial remark. “When you mention the term ‘city mentality’ to an audience consisting mainly of African Americans, they’re not thinking city mentality means ‘regional.’ They’re thinking you mean the Nword mentality. That was a perception problem,” said Gary NAACP President Tammi Davis. Davis has sent a letter to Gov. Mitch Daniels requesting a formal apology and suggesting that Silverman attend sensitivity training. More than 800 Gary and Lowell residents had crowded into an auditorium at Indiana University Northwest for a hearing to lobby Silverman to keep BMV branch offices in their communities. In a related development, state Sen. Earline Rogers, D-Gary, said based on her recent dealing with Silverman, she plans to introduce legislation to ensure greater public scrutiny of the state’s executive branch leadership. Rogers’ legislation, which she will file in the upcoming 2006 session, would require all state agency heads to be confirmed by the Indiana state Senate prior to taking office. The new confirmation process, which would mirror the federal government’s system and several other states’ practices would ensure greater accountability within Indiana state government and ensure the quality of personnel decisions, a news release from Rogers said. “I think if we had this new check and balance in place we could have avoided many of the problems brought on by the appointment of Commissioner Silverman,” said Rogers. “In the confirmation process we could have learned about his management style, his inability to work with others and his hostile attitudes towards some of his fellow Hoosiers.”

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