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Adult Community Corrections

Rainbow Book 2007 - Prepared for The 60th Montana Legislature

The Division headquarters is located in Helena, with offices and facilities throughout Montana. The Division provides supervision for 75 percent of the more than 9,000 offenders in the corrections system, through its five subdivisions and contract facilities:
The Interstate Compact Unit coordinates the movement and data tracking of probationers and parolees among states. It oversees the transfers of more than 1,600 adult offenders.
The Probation and Parole Bureau, through 23 field offices, supervises more than 6,200 adult probationers and parolees.
Adult Community Corrections also administers the Intensive Supervision Program(ISP), a specalized form of adult probation and parole lasting 9 to 18 months. ISP uses a heightened level of supervision, monitoring devices and close scheduling. ISP offenders live at home, hold or seek jobs, and are under greater scrutiny than other probationers and parolees.
Ten institutional probation and parole officers serve the adult secure facilities by participating in parole and prerelease placement decisions.
The Treasure State Correctional Training Center near Deer Lodge is a 60-bed correctional facility for men, based on a military format of discipline and treatment (boot camp). Programs employed during the trainee's 90 to 120-day incarceration include victimology, criminal thinking errors, anger management, substance abuse treatment and academic schooling.
The Adult Prerelease Unit contracts with five non-profit prerelease centers for housing, treatment and supervision of 410 men and 110 women. These centers provide transition from prison to community and an alternative to prison for "diverted" offenders when public safety and the offenders' interests are best served by a level of supervision between prison and probation.
The Department also contracts with a private non-profit corporation for an additional 64 beds for chemical dependency treatment and services related to entering and exiting Boot Camp.
Warm Springs Addiction Treatment and Change (WATCh) opened in February 2000 for the supervision and treatment of felony (fourth and subsequent) DUI offenders. The 140-bed facility is based on a modified therapeutic community approach. Those who successfully complete the six-month WATCh program may have the remainder of their 13-month mandatory prison sentences suspended.
On 12/12/05, the Montana Department of Corrections began a new program called START (Sanction, Treatment, Assessment, Revocation and Transition). The facility is designed for “technical” violators only. Offenders that are facing additional felony offenses are not eligible for placement at the START facility.

Contacts

PreRelease Centers

Alternatives,Inc.; 3109 1st Avenue North; Billings, MT 59101 David Armstrong, Administrator;
(406) 259-9695; FAX (406) 259-0764

Community Counseling & Corr. Services, Inc.; 471 E. Mercury; Butte, MT 59701 Steve McArthur, Director; (406) 782-2316; FAX (406) 782-1170

Gallatin County Reentry Program; 675 S. 16th Ave; Bozeman, MT 59715 Melissa Kelly, Director; (406) 994-0300; FAX (406) 994-0306

Great Falls Transition Center; 1019 15th Street North; Great Falls, MT 59401 Paul Cory, Director; (406) 727-0944; FAX (406) 727-0961

Helena PreRelease Center; 805 Colleen Street; Helena, MT 59601 Amy Tenney, Director of Helena PRC (406) 442-6572; FAX (406) 495-0582

Missoula Correctional Services, Inc.; 2350 Mullan Road; Missoula, MT 59808 Sue Wilkins, Director;
(406) 541-9200; FAX (406) 541-9216

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