Section 390.714 - Grants to countiesThe department shall, by regulation, establish procedures to implement the purposes of this chapter and to make grants to counties for the repair, expansion, construction, reconstruction, rehabilitation and improvement of local correctional facilities or multicounty regional prison facilities or the purchase of electronic monitoring equipment for alternative sentencing programs. These procedures shall include, at a minimum, the following:
(1) Applications shall be made to the department by the county or counties requesting the grant.(2) Any grant approved by the department must be matched by funding in a like amount by the county from county funds, except that, if any Federal funding should become available for the construction of local correctional facilities, then both the department and county shares shall be reduced in like proportion.(3) Grants shall be available only for the repair, expansion, construction, reconstruction, rehabilitation and improvement of local correctional facilities or multicounty regional prison facilities or the purchase of electronic monitoring equipment for alternative sentencing programs.(4) Priority in the grant process shall be given to those counties which have expanded their prison facilities within five years of the date of the application and which are presently at or exceeding 115% of rated capacity. Under no circumstances shall any such grant exceed $1,000,000.1990, July 1, P.L. 315, No. 71, § 714, retroactive effective 12/21/1989.