News - 2006
CEC Opens Drug Court Program at Wyoming Reentry Facility
Roseland, NJ, Dec 14, 2006 - Community Education Centers is pleased to announce the opening of a new Drug Court program at CEC's Casper Re-Entry Center, Wyoming's largest reentry facility. The Drug Court program participants are currently referred from the Natrona County Drug Court and will receive services to include in-patient treatment, employment services, and aftercare services. These services are designed to treat methamphetamine abuse which is a major problem in most western states, including Wyoming.
"With the addition of the Natrona County Drug Court program, the Casper Re-Entry Center adds a new level of service designed to reduce recidivism in the State of Wyoming. We look forward to providing quality and cost-effective programming," said John Clancy, President and CEO of CEC.
The Casper Re-entry Center, a 400-bed residential facility that opened in February 2005, also provides residential treatment services to two other distinct populations. The first is a 200-bed community corrections and work-release program that provides residential and non-residential services to adult male and female offenders referred by the Wyoming Department of Corrections and the Federal Bureau of Prisons.
The Casper Re-Entry Center also houses a 100-bed medium secure Therapeutic Community (TC) program called Casper Hall. This program provides a treatment milieu that motivates and assists offenders in achieving meaningful goals. Peer influence is an important component of the program. Residents interact with peers through a variety of group processes used to help individual learn and assimilate social norms and develop more effective social skills.
Drug courts emerged in the late 1980s as cost-effective responses response to rapidly increasing felony drug caseloads that strained the Nation's courts and overflowed its jails and prisons. There are over 1200 drug courts currently operating in the United States representing the coordinated efforts of various community and government agencies to address the substance abuse needs of offenders.
CEC is the leading provider of rehabilitative and reentry services to the criminal justice system in America. CEC's facilities provide a full range of therapeutic residential and non-residential correctional services with an empirically documented record of reducing recidivism.
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