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agencies, and even a handicapped private citizen all have benefited from more than 1,300 hours of work by the Middle Virginia CDI clients since January.
Offenders may be eligible for CDI if they commit crimes such as forgery, breaking and entering, unlawful use of an auto or credit card, larceny, drug possession, embezzlement, shoplifting, or other nonviolent offenses.
A client is referred to CDI by a judge, who has the final word on admission to the program. Felons also must be approved by the Community Corrections Resource Board, made up of two representatives from each participating locality and one from the Virginia Department of Corrections. All CDI Programs operate under contract with the Department of Corrections.
If a client does not live up to his obligations while in the CDI Program, the referring court may impose the suspended sentence.
Under a state law adopted in 1980, Virginia localities have the option of initiating a CDI Program. Twenty-eight programs are operating today across the Commonwealth. Since it opened its doors in January 1986, Middle Virginia CDI - serving the counties of Culpeper, Fauquier, Madison, Orange and Rappahannock - has diverted more than 60 offenders from serving in excess of 46 years of costly prison and jail time. The staff and board have reached a success rate of more than 90 percent of all closed cases.
CDI also makes sense dollarwise. Statewide, the cost to CDI for the average state felon is less than $7,000 — less than half the cost of penitentiary time. The average misdemeanant costs only $200, while the cost to a local jail to hold a prisoner for the same period is more than $3,000. (Source: Virginia Department of Corrections.)
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