The criminal justice system continues to be burdened with jail and prison overcrowding. While removing offenders from prison or jail effectively frees up cells, it also creates a huge population in our communities that requires some form of supervision, treatment, and monitoring.

Justice Services offers a continuum of products and services including:

• Psycho-social assessments,
• Monitoring,
• Tracking,
• Treatment programs for juveniles and adults,
• Parenting classes,
• Electronic monitoring,
• Remote alcohol testing technology,
• Urinalysis testing,
• “Free” victim services

Justice Services provides a wide range of management, supervision, tracking, monitoring, and treatment services to defendants. Professional and well-trained staff implement a comprehensive approach to offender management including: drug and alcohol testing, electronic monitoring, collection and disbursement of restitution, as well as treatment programs. The programs address individualized needs but also provide employability skills, job readiness, parenting, life skills, anger and stress management.

The programs interrupt each defendant’s pattern of criminogenic behaviors and assist the client to develop life enhancing cognitive skills and attitudes. Utilizing proven behavior change technologies, entrenched, dysfunctional patterns of behavior including substance abuse, chronic criminal behavior patterns, resistance to authority and lack of follow through is replaced with anger management, parenting, relapse prevention, and extensive life skills knowledge. Program participants are assisted to understand, take responsibility for, and change their individual patterns of substance abuse, a critical component of behavior change. It is almost impossible to make progress in any life area if a person continues to abuse alcohol or drugs.

Justice Services conducts external and internal research to assess various program strategies. Interventions are based on this research. In collaboration with the criminal justice entities, system fragmentation can be reduced through the provision of up-to-the-minute communication between Justice Services and the criminal justice system.

The dynamic criminogenic risk factors have been identified that are most correlated with recidivism. Specific behavioral areas in need of and amenable to systematic change areas follows:

• Antisocial attitudes, thinking and behaviors must be addressed and changed;
• Inappropriate peer associations must be eliminated and action taken to integrate more normal friendships and relationships;
• Social relationships including family and friends must be enhanced and “corrected”;
• Antisocial behavioral patters (e.g. lying, stealing victimizing) must be specifically addressed and altered to prosocial behaviors and attitudes;
• Self-reliance, dependability, and reliability must be fostered;
• Drug and alcohol abuse patterns must be redirected into addiction recovery lifestyles; and
• Dysfunctional school and work patterns must be replaced by the acquisition of effective learning and work skills.

Cognitive re-education, substance abuse education and treatment, employment preparation and life skills development are critical to successful intervention with this population.

Philosophy:
To treat participants with respect and dignity while modeling positive social behaviors. Justice Services, Inc. strives to provide a high degree of discipline combined with intensive treatment programs to prevent criminal behavior and encourage positive social attitudes.

Goal:
To protect the public by providing criminal offenders a combination of maximum supervision, immediate reporting, and intensive treatment at one location.

Reporting:
There are four levels of supervision at the Justice Services’ Day Reporting/Transitional Treatment Centers (DRC). Each client will start in the most intensive level and progressively move through the program to the less intensive level. It is important to understand that each client’s required level of supervision depends upon the actual behavior change that has taken place for each individual client. DRC clients who choose to “do time” cannot expect to move to move to lower levels of supervision. You will see supervision reduced when progress is made.

Curfew:
All clients are expected to be in their homes during certain hours. This curfew is put in place as an initial supervision tool to gauge a client’s ability to follow rules and regulations as well as confine clients to home at hours known for more criminal activity. Curfew hours will be reviewed, along with all other aspects of this program, from time to time, and will be reduced or increased based upon progress in the program.

Curfew hours can be adjusted to accommodate those clients who obtain verifiable employment as long as that client is complying with other requirements of the program. All changes in curfew hours need to be approved by the assigned Case Manager and Parole Agent prior to the change. After a client calls in for the night s/he is to remain at home until the curfew is over the next morning.

Breathalyzer:
Each time the client reports to the DRC, s/he will be required to submit to a breathalyzer test. This test is designed to identify if a client has been drinking alcohol in the past 24 hours. Alcohol is strictly prohibited at any time while in the DRC program. A positive reading on the breathalyzer, indicating alcohol use, can lead to placement in a substance abuse program. If the test reading is at a particularly high level, the client will be immediately referred to jail or a hospital for detoxification.

Urinalysis Testing:
Each client must submit to random urine screening to test for drug use. All individuals will be assigned an individual color code (Blue, Green, Red, etc.) which will be used to provide a random drop schedule. The “color of the day” will be displayed at the facility to inform clients, upon arrival, who will be tested that day. It is each client’s responsibility to look for the color of the day and then sign the Urinalysis Roster. After signing the roster, an appropriate staff member will monitor the sample collection and wait with the client as the results appear. Any positive reading will be reported in an Incident Report and there will be a scheduled assessment with a substance abuse Case Manager for placement in a substance abuse group. Other levels of sanctions will be used with clients already attending substance abuse groups to address the issue of noncompliance. Failure to submit to a urinalysis test will be considered a positive drop. The referring agency will be notified of any positive test or failure to provide a urine test.

Assessment:
All DRC clients will undergo an extensive assessment within the first week of their arrival. The assessment is designed to identify the specific programming needs of the individual and provide a guide to develop the assistance that is needed.

Groups:
As individual treatment plan and schedule will be developed which will address the specific program needs in the client’s life. The purpose of this plan will be to focus on the areas of an individual’s life that are most likely to lead to a return to a criminal lifestyle. This schedule can include up to three groups per week. All clients are assigned to a case management group. All additional groups will be assigned based on an individual’s needs. All assigned groups require mandatory attendance and participation. Failure to attend groups as scheduled or failure to participate while in group will prevent the client from progressing through the program, and can lead to sanctions.

Attendance & Punctuality:
The DRC program is designed to prepare clients for life in the real world. Therefore, all groups are designed to foster a level of responsibility. Each client will know his/her weekly reporting schedule and is expected to meet that schedule. To be excused from group due to an emergency, one must obtain permission on a case-by-case basis from the Case Manager. Sanctions will be administered for invalid excuses. The client will be expected to report 15 minutes prior to group in order to check in and be on time for group. Clients late for group will not be admitted without previous arrangements made with a Case Manager. The client is expected to plan for the week of reporting, including but not limited to: travel arrangements, weekly assignments, group meetings, etc. A consistent failure to report as scheduled will result in higher levels of supervision or revocation.

Transportation:
All DRC clients are expected to address their own transportation needs. The DRC Employment Coordinator at the facility has made contact with several day labor agencies in the Phoenix Metro area should any client have no source of family support while seeking part-time or full-time employment. All clients driving to the facility will be required to provide a valid driver’s license and current automobile insurance to their Case Manager. Day Reporting Center Sanctions All clients are subject to program sanctions (consequences) based on their individual noncompliance with the program. Sanctions are always progressive in nature and will be administered subsequent to a meeting with the Case Manager and administrative staff. The removal of a sanction will take place after a specified time period and will be based on the client’s compliance. Sanctions can be added or removed based on compliance.

1. Earlier curfew
2. Change in Supervision Level
3. Additional Urinalysis Tests
4. Additional Groups (i.e., Time Management, Substance Abuse, etc.)
5. Community Service
6. Home Confinement
7. Electronic Detention
8. Revocation of Parole/Return to Prison