Program Goals
- To facilitate jail bed openings
- To make recommendations for release and/or eligibility for other pre-trial options to the courts utilizing a statistically reliable risk / need assessment called COMPAS (Correctional Offender Management Profiling for Alternative Sanctions)
- To provide objective information to the courts in Washington County regarding failure to appear for jail detainees who are incarcerated pre-trial due to lack of bail funds
- To supervise adult offenders and/or juvenile offenders who are placed on electronic monitoring as a graduated sanction instead of sending them to detention or jail
- To supervise offenders released under supervision (RUS) to electronic monitoring
Referral Source
- County court
- Day reporting program
- Department of Social Services
- Family treatment court
- Felony drug court
- Local court
- Probation Department
Target Population
All un-sentenced inmates held in the Washington County Jail are screened for pre-trial release eligibility as outlined by the New York State Office of Probation and Correctional Alternatives pre-trial guidelines.
Pre-Trial Release Options
- Day reporting
- Electronic monitoring
- Release on your own recognizance (ROR)
- Release with conditions
