Our Community Corrections Division promotes locally based programs as alternatives to costly incarceration. While supervision methods vary by county, they may include work-release programs (with participants working freely in the community during the day, and staying in a supervised facility at night), electronic monitoring, and more. Our role is not to operate these programs but to empower our county partners to develop alternatives to costly incarceration. Research has demonstrated that prison incarceration alone has little impact on long-term behavior change for offenders. Community Corrections programming focuses on evidence-based practices and treatment to support behavioral change. Providing Alternatives
Participants sentenced or referred to Community Corrections and other grant- funded programs are neither supervised nor managed by IDOC. Placement or removal from community-based supervision programs is determined entirely by program staff and locally based court officials. Local Community Corrections advisory boards, which oversee the programming in their area, are also independent. Local program staff are not employed by the State.
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