Community Corrections

To provide safety to the community while ensuring offender accountability and rehabilitation

The Community Corrections Program is an alternative to incarceration that provides probation supervision for non-violent offenders. The program provides probation supervision for General District Court offenders/defendants and adult offenders/defendants from Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court. Community Corrections performs drug screens on offenders. Referrals are made for counseling for substance abuse, mental health, drug education programs, anger management and batterer's intervention groups, sex offender treatment and GED classes. Restitution for victims is monitored and community service is monitored for court costs, fines and sentences.

Receives court referrals for community service
Monitors offenders on work sites
Monitors progress
Reports to courts
Provides individual counseling and guidance
Random drug screening
Residential rehabilitation
Job referral and reference

The Community Corrections Program supervised 419 offenders over the past year.

The Community Sentencing Program provides an alternative for offenders to perform community service in lieu of paying fines and costs. It also provides offenders the opportunity to perform court ordered sentences of community service. Community service consists of a variety of services performed at approximately 100 non-profit work sites throughout the county. Examples of community service would be parks and recreation, libraries, town road crews, transfer stations and SVCC.

During the last year, the Community Sentencing Program worked with 406 offenders performing 10,336 hours of community service for a value of $53,229.11.