What is community correction Colorado?
Residential Community Corrections facilities are an alternative to prison intended to help offenders return to their communities. Offenders that meet acceptance criteria are placed in residential programs instead of prison or transferred from Colorado’s state prisons before release.
What is comcore?
Founded in 1984, ComCor, Inc. is a non-profit organization that provides housing, rehabilitation and other treatment services for our clients.
What does community regressive mean?
Community Regressions occur when a community based inmate has been found guilty of a violation and is being brought back into a higher level custody prison bed. Community Return to Custody Facility Regressions are those offenders being regressed from community pursuant to SB 03-252 (parole revocation option).
How much of a sentence has to be served in Colorado?
The general rule of time computation is that a felony defendant will be eligible to meet the parole board for parole release consideration after serving 50 percent of the sentence, less earned time (not to exceed 30 percent of the sentence) and pre-sentence confinement credit.
What is community correction?
The supervision of criminal offenders in the resident population, as opposed to confining offenders in secure correctional facilities. The two main types of community corrections supervision are probation and parole. Community corrections is also referred to as community supervision.
How does community correction help?
Community corrections programs attempt to accomplish many goals. These goals include easing institutional crowding and cost; preventing future criminal behavior through surveillance, rehabilitation, and community reintegration; and addressing victims’ needs through restorative justice.
What crimes get a community sentence?
Community sentences can be given for crimes such as: damaging property. benefit fraud….You may get a community sentence if:
- the court thinks you’re more likely to stop committing crime than if you go to prison.
- it’s the first time you have committed a crime.
- you have a mental health condition that affects your behaviour.
What does a 12 month community order mean?
“A Community Order is a non-custodial sentence with one or more specific requirements which can be tailored for the purposes of punishment and/or to meet the needs of a defendant to overcome problems and avoid committing offences in the future.”