Arkansas Community Correction Arkansas Community Correction Two Union National Plaza Building 105 West Capitol, 3rd Floor Little Rock, AR 72201-5731 501?682-95 10 (of?ce) 501 ?682-95 13 (fax) Serving Justice October 2, 2014 Mr. Glenn Whitman 1199 Grant Decatur, Arkansas 72722 Re: The D.A.R.P. Foundation Mr. Whitman, I am in receipt of your letter explaining the goals and function of the D.A.R.P. Foundation in general and speci?cally the facility in Decatur. I appreciate your letter responding to the directives that all of the licensed Transitional Housing Facilities are expected to comply with. These uniform standards allow our parolees to have similar opportunities for success regardless of which transitional facility they choose as a part of their reentry back into society. Those opportunities include, but are not limited to, affordable and safe housing, gainful employment, treatment, family reuni?cation, and other goals. Your request that the D.A.R.P. Foundation be given an exception to the policies that every other facility must adhere to is one that I cannot grant. We have other facilities in the state that also house parolees who were released from the Arkansas Department of Correction under Act 679 and they house them in compliance with our transitional housing directives. Our decision that all Arkansas parolees housed in licensed transitional housing must be paid at least a minimum wage for their labor will stand. I will await your ?nal decision as to whether the D.A.R.P. Foundation is able to comply with our established standards. Sincerely, Sheila Sharp, Director Arkansas Community Correction Arkansas Community Correction Arkansas Community Correction Two Union National Plaza Building 105 West Capitol, 3rd Floor Little Rock, AR 72201-5731 501w682-9510 (of?ce) 501m682~9513 (fax) Serving Justice October 7, 2014 Glen Whitman P. O. Box 8 Decatur, Arkansas 72722 Mr. Whitman, I received your letter yesterday with further explanation of the program currently used by the D.A.R.P. Foundation for our parolees and those housed as a part of the Act 679 program for Early Release. Your letter reemphasized your previous correspondence and our personal conversation while visiting with you last Friday. While we understand both your procedures and your goals, your facility still remains out of compliance with our Administrative Directive on licensed Transitional Housing. Being a non-profit business, regardless if the goals of the facility are based on business, service, or faith, we understand that a facility must Operate with income suf?cient for operations. This could be done by D.A.R.P. using the existing policies and funding available to you and that other facilities adhere to. Your practice of providing housing, clothing, obtaining documentation for employment, ?nding jobs, providing transportation, etc., are identical to that other facilities do while in compliance to current standards. How the D.A.R.P. Foundation wishes to respond, by adhering to current standards or deciding that you prefer not to, will be the foundations choice. To remain as a licensed facility with Arkansas Community Correction, however, will require compliance to current standards. Sincerely, Richard L. Guy Transitional Housing Coordinator