Community Corrections Program

The Community Corrections Program is an alternative to incarceration that provides probation supervision for non-violent offenders. The program provides probation supervision to both the General District Court offenders/defendants and adult offenders/defendants from Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court. The program performs drug screens on offenders, and 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. In lieu of paying fines, the program provides an option for offenders to perform community service. Community service programs consist of a variety of services at over 100 work sites throughout the county including parks and recreation, libraries, town and road crews, and transfer stations. Restitution for victims is monitored and community service is monitored for court costs, fines and sentences.

The goal of the Community Corretions Program is to provide an alternative to incarceration by providing counseling to the offender and organizing integration back into the community through community service activities.

The Community Corrections Program supervised 419 offenders over the past year, and the offenders performed over 10,000 hours of community service.