Klamath County Community Corrections

Programs

The science of our field reminds us accurate assessment is the key in identifying offenders who pose the most risk to our community.  Further, we need to prioritize our resources to this population. 

Based upon the above principles, our department prioritizes a field caseload ratio for medium and high risk offenders at 55-60 per officer. We also apply these principles specific to how we manage unfunded misdemeanors, Low and Limited Risk offenders. 

Day Reporting
Requires offender to report to a central location every day where they file a written daily schedule showing how each hour of the day will be spent - at work, in treatment and so forth. The offender must obey a curfew, perform community work, and submit to random drug testing. Day reporting often includes programs such as alcohol/drug groups, employment readiness, cognitive restructuring, and education.

MRT
Moral Reconation Therapy Program (MRT®): Thinking for Good as the initial program response for all felony offenders presenting with medium to high risk criminogenic factors and substance abuse issues.
MRT® : Thinking for Good is an objective, systematic treatment system designed to change how drug abusers and alcoholics make decisions and judgments by raising moral reasoning from Kohlberg's perspective. MRT® focuses systematically on seven basic treatment issues: confrontation of beliefs, attitudes and behaviors, assessment of current relationships, reinforcement of positive behavior and habits, positive identity formation: enhancement of self-concept, decrease in hedonism and development of frustration tolerance, and development of higher stages of moral reasoning.
Research on MRT® has shown that as clients pass steps, moral reasoning increases in adult drug and alcohol offenders and juvenile offenders.
MRT has been selected for inclusion on the National Registry of Evidence-based Programs and Practices (NREPP) sponsored by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.

Alcohol and Drug Treatment
At least 75 percent of Klamath County's offenders have drug or alcohol issues. Parole and Probation Officers have the ability to refer offenders to local alcohol and drug treatment programs. The offender is referred for an assessment and placed according to the ASAM criteria, in the appropriate level of treatment. 

The Parole and Probation Officers work very closely with the treatment counselor to insure the offender is compliant with the treatment program. This strong relationship between counselors and Klamath Community Corrections insures the offenders are held accountable for their behavior and actions.

Restorative Justice Family Center
Initiated just over six years ago, the vision of this program is to reduce intergenerational criminality by engaging offenders’ families in a comprehensive, strengths based, and integrated approach to service delivery.

Supportive services, linkages, and service coordination for families of offenders to mitigate risk factors, increase protective factors and insure early identification and treatment of existing behavioral health conditions.

Our belief, supported by national evidence, is that an offender’s success in changing their life is enhanced by including the family and their support system in their recovery.

Klamath Youth Development Center has been the contracted service provider offering non-offending parent services, victim counseling and parenting services.

Batterer’s Intervention Program (BIP)
KCCC contracts with Klamath Youth Development Center to provide services to offenders convicted of domestic violence.  These services involve a significant amount of collaboration among the Probation Officer, Polygraph Examiner and BIP Provider.  Offender accountability and victim safety are two of the primary goals of the program.

Sex Offender Treatment
KCCC contracts with Corrections Evaluation Services to provide treatment to offenders convicted of sexual offenses.  Similar to domestic violence offenders, the treatment module requires the Probation officer, Polygraph Examiner and Sex Ofender Therapist to work closely with one another to ensure offender accountability and victim safety.