| Community Corrections Programs |
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| What Kind of Programs Exist in the Community? |
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Community corrections uses a wide array of sanctions and services/interventions designed to reduce the likelihood of future criminal behavior while holding offenders accountable for their crimes and in meeting court or parole board-ordered conditions of supervision. Each county decides what array of sanctions and services best meet the needs of the offender population and the community. There is wide variability in available programs from county to county. Community corrections programs in your community may include:
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| Sanctions |
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- Work Center - These programs house offenders in a structured setting, allowing them to leave the premises for work or other approved activities such as drug treatment. The program provides control of offenders who are required to pay victim restitution and other costs from wages they earn while working in the community.
- Electronic Monitoring - Offender spends most of the time at home with a small transmitter attached to wrist or ankle. A very specific schedule is required and a computer alerts officers whenever the offender is not where he/she is supposed to be.
- House Arrest - Offender spends most of the time at home without electronics - A specific schedule is required and verification occurs by telephone.
- Day Reporting - Requires offender to report to a central location every day where (s)he files a written daily schedule showing how each hour of the day will be spent - at work, in treatment and so forth. The offender must obey a curfew, perform community work, and submit to random drug testing. Day reporting often includes programs such as alcohol/drug groups, employment readiness and education.
- Intensive & Special Supervision - Offender may be seen up to five times per week, be on curfew, have frequent employment checks, submit to drug testing, and be subject to unannounced visits at home by PO.
- Community Service - Offenders are assigned to work for government or private nonprofit agencies - some chop wood, clear trails, weed or maintain parks, paint buildings, collect roadside trash or other types of manual labor.
- Community Work Crew - The same as community service, but offenders work in supervised crews.
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| Services / Interventions |
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- Outpatient Substance Abuse Treatment - Group and/or individual treatment to address alcohol and drug issues. Some treatment may be very intensive, meeting on a daily basis or may be conducted in a day treatment model.
- Residential Substance Abuse Treatment - More intensive treatment in a residential facility. Ranges from 30 to 180 days.
- Mental Health Treatment - Includes general counseling, evaluations, services for mental/emotionally disturbed and other seriously mentally ill offenders.
- Anger Management - A program delivered in a group setting that teaches methods to control anger productively.
- Cognitive Restructuring - A program that addresses flaws in how an offender thinks to assist in interrupting criminal thinking patterns.
- Sex Offender Treatment - Group and individual treatment, often in relapse prevention, to assist in providing behavior control to sex offenders. Treatment is generally long in duration.
- Employment - Assist offenders in obtaining and keeping jobs.
- Education - Assist offenders in obtaining Basic Education or GED.
- Crisis and Transition Housing - Individual and group housing primarily for parolees released from prison or temporarily experiencing instability in living arrangements.
- Transition Services - Pre-release services to connect the offender with housing, treatment, employment and other services before release from prison to reduce likelihood of failure.
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| Other Tools |
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- Urinalysis - Testing for drugs and alcohol.
- Polygraph - Disclosure and ongoing testing for sex offenders to assure compliance with conditions of supervision.
- Antabuse Support - Subsidized assistance for the purchase of Antabuse - a drug to discourage alcohol usage.
- Subsidy - Limited financial assistance for offenders to purchase housing, food, transportation, work clothing etc.
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