N.J. Stat. Ann. § 30:8-54

The board of chosen freeholders of any county may appropriate annually funds to provide for the rehabilitation and re-establishment as law-abiding citizens, of indigent persons discharged from the county jail, county penitentiary or other county institution for the confinement of persons charged with, or convicted of, crime, in order to better control the menace of the repeated commission of crime by such persons and for the protection of the public from recidivism.