Safe Streets Partnerships are a Continuing Success

Mayor James Ireton, Jr. is pleased to announce another Salisbury Safe Streets Coalition initiative involving Salisbury Neighborhood Services and Code Compliance and Poplar Hill Pre-Release Facility.

Through the Safe Streets initiative, the City of Salisbury has partnered with the Department of Corrections (DOC), for the fifth time, to clean-up rubbish from along the local railroad rights-of-way.

A group of supervised inmates will work with support from the Salisbury Department of Public Works (DPW) and Neighborhood Services & Code Compliance (NSCC) to remove a large amount of accumulated rubbish, from Truitt St. to Coles Circle.

“Poplar Hill Pre-release Unit is proud to partner with the City of Salisbury through our Public Safety Works program, which helps grow strong connections to the communities that they will be returning to,” said the Poplar Hill Pre-Release Communications Department.

“Last year, nearly 350 offenders were working in towns across Maryland on any given day; they worked a total of 685,000 hours.

“PSW is a fundamental aspect of restorative justice and PHPRU looks forward to future projects that will help to enhance the City of Salisbury and give inmates the skills that will help them to be productive members of the community when they return”

Mayor Ireton added, “The relationship that has grown between Poplar Hill Pre-Release and Neighborhood Services is laudable. This is the fifth cleanup event that this partnership has seen. Along with our re-entry program funded through the city, this Safe Streets relationship is an example of partnerships that work.”