Capital Public Radio At the Sacramento Press Club meeting this week, criminal justice experts discussed ways to make AB 109 prison realignment more effective. Many said that long-term solutions require
GEO Reentry Services operates Day Reporting programs for correctional agencies nationwide. The most intensive level of day reporting occurs in a Full Day Reporting Center environment. Full DRCs have multiple
GEO Reentry’s Day Reporting Centers offer programs designed to help parolees and probationers successfully transition back to family and community life. After a risk and needs assessment, a GEO Reentry
The Press Democrat AB 109 prison realignment was passed in 2011 and shifted responsibility for low-level offenders from the state of California to its counties. AB 109 is an effort
Two years ago, California implemented legislation that has sent shockwaves nationwide in the corrections industry. The state passed legislation called California Public Safety Realignment, which shifted the responsibility for incarcerating
GEO Reentry operates Day Reporting Centers for state and county correctional agencies throughout the country. These programs deliver cognitive behavioral programming, which aims to rehabilitate offenders by changing criminal behavior
Tom Hoffman, former Director of the Department of Adult Parole Operations for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, recently wrote an article for California Forward arguing that AB 109
The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, in conjunction with the Division of Adult Parole Operations, selected GEO Reentry Services to operate parolee reentry centers in four locations: San Diego,
On September 10-13, the Travis County Sheriff’s Office will host the first “Vision Summit: Looking toward the Future of Reentry” in Austin, Texas. Experts in the criminal justice field will
Recently, the Council of State Governments Justice Center—a national nonprofit organization that provides nonpartisan advice and evidence-based strategies to policymakers—released a memo from the Federal Interagency Reentry Council on the
BI Incorporated has helped several counties in Pennsylvania, including Cambria, Franklin and Luzerne, implement evidence-based alternatives to detention. In Luzerne, BI helped the county implement an electronic monitoring program as
This week U.S. Attorney General Eric H. Holder, Jr. announced plans to reform several criminal justice policies, most notably curtailing mandatory minimum sentences for low-level, nonviolent drug offenders, in an
Recently, 37 organizations including the International Community Corrections Association, a non-profit organization sponsored by BI Incorporated, sent a letter to the U.S. House of Representatives in support of funding a
Merced Sun-Star Jeffrey Beard, Gov. Jerry Brown’s secretary of corrections, recently toured and praised Merced’s Trident Center. The center provides services to offenders released under AB 109, legislation which moved
Like many counties across the nation, Franklin County, Pa., has struggled with rising crime rates and overcrowded jails. In 2003, the county’s 194-bed prison saw its inmate count climb as
To help cope with chronic recidivism and crowded jails, counties nationwide are moving toward integration of community programs. Several counties in Pennsylvania, including Cambria County, have implemented day reporting programs
Recently, a panel of three federal judges ruled that California must release 9,600 inmates by the end of 2013. The three-judge court stated that California needs to expand the use
Mark your calendars for an upcoming workshop sponsored by GEO Reentry and its parent GEO Community Services. The 90-minute workshop, “Using technology to implement cognitive behavioral treatment with offenders,” will be
Earlier this month, GEO Reentry led the workshop “An Introduction to Alcohol Monitoring Testing Technologies” at the National Association of Drug Court Professionals’ 19th Annual Training Conference. The workshop was designed
Recently, California Forward’s Partnership for Community Excellence—an organization that supports California counties in implementing AB 109 Public Safety Realignment—met with criminal justice leaders for a roundtable discussion on split sentencing.
All across the country, states are exploring alternatives to detention as a way to reduce high prison costs and populations that have swollen over the last couple of decades. Legislators