View Search Results

Provides educational services to minors under 21 years of age in the Riverhead and Yaphank Correctional Facilities, for a minimum of 15 hours per week, to prepare students for TASC™ or Regents testing. Also available are Tutoring, Remedial Education, ENL, and Career and Technical Education, and Career/Life Planning and anger management. The program is designed to prepare students to complete the requirements for a Regents, Local or High School Equivalency Diploma. Courses of study infuse contextualized learning, career preparation and skills achievement into daily lessons.

Provides asstance for family and friends of people in prison information, referrals, peer support, counseling, including support group information to deal with issues during a loved ones incarceration or release.

Offers services to assist residents equal access to services and opportunities of the community as well as fair treatment of all people throughout the civil and criminal justice systems, and works to reduce reliance on incarceration. Provides assistance with financial advocacy, legal information, health insurance navigation, and legal and voting rights workshops.

Protects the public from criminal offenders by providing safe, secure and humane supervision and confinement. Houses individuals lawfully committed to the Department of Correction's custody in accordance with all applicable laws, rules, regulations, and standards. Persons committed may be eligible for various programs, including, but not limited to, education, work, and substance abuse counseling.

Provides a range of advocate services for current inmates of New York State prison facilities, including for release from solitary confinement, restoration of good time, adequate medical and mental health treatment, proper certification of jail time credit, and appropriate education and programming.

Protects the public from criminal offenders by providing safe, secure and humane supervision and confinement. Houses individuals lawfully committed to the Department of Correction's custody in accordance with all applicable laws, rules, regulations, and standards. Persons committed may be eligible for various programs, including, but not limited to, education, work, and substance abuse counseling.

The New Dawn Initiative, sustained through Peaceprints of WNY’s Project Blue program, provides reentry-focused support for high-risk incarcerated individuals with co-occurring mental health and substance use needs. Participants work weekly with a case manager to assist in the development of individualized case plans and can engage in services offered directly through Peaceprints and community partners or through linkages to community-based organizations. Available supports may include housing assistance, education and employment services, mental health and substance use treatment, public benefits assistance, and other reentry-related services. Case management services continue for up to one year following release. ##REENTRY##

Maintains a direct supervision jail system to lawfully detain and house inmates.

Protects the public from criminal offenders by providing safe, secure and humane supervision and confinement. Houses individuals lawfully committed to the Department of Correction's custody in accordance with all applicable laws, rules, regulations, and standards. Persons committed may be eligible for various programs, including, but not limited to, education, work, and substance abuse counseling.

Services for inmates to properly address mental health or addiction. Citizen Advocates works closely with the administrative staff at the Franklin County Jail to provide the services needed. Inmates receive the appropriate evidence-based treatment and counseling to reduced risk for further substance abuse and drug-related overdose or death.

Consists of a collection of integrated education and counseling services designed to facilitate the successful re-entry of ex-offenders into society. Re-ROUT strives to reduce the recidivism rate of criminal offenders who have completed a period of incarceration and/or probation in Suffolk County. Realizing that the first few weeks post-release can be crucial to a successful transition process, participants are encouraged to make contact with the Re-ROUT office located on the BOCES Ward Technical Center campus in Riverhead as soon as possible after release. There, the ex-offender is introduced to the Re-ROUT services. In the weeks that follow, the Re-ROUT office offers the needed services, referrals and support to aid the client's reintegration. New York Probation Officers and Correction Officers inform probationers and prisoners about the Re-ROUT Program during the initial orientation sessions. As part of the In-Jail Education Program, the Re-ROUT counselors work with the Probation Department and immediately help interested clients develop career/life/education plans. Upon release from the correctional facility and/or probation obligations, the ex-offender is invited to report to the Re-ROUT office at the Bixhorn Technical Center (BTC) in Bellport. There, the ex-offender is introduced to the Re-ROUT "outside" counseling staff. In the weeks that follow, this staff provides the needed services, referrals and support to aid their client's reintegration into society.

Responsible for the supervision, casework, and enforcement of parole restriction, as well as investigation of applications for certificates of relief, certificates of good conduct, and applications for clemency. ##REENTRY##

Protects the public from criminal offenders by providing safe, secure and humane supervision and confinement. Houses individuals lawfully committed to the Department of Correction's custody in accordance with all applicable laws, rules, regulations, and standards. Persons committed may be eligible for various programs, including, but not limited to, education, work, and substance abuse counseling.

Responsible for the supervision, casework, and enforcement of parole restriction, as well as investigation of applications for certificates of relief, certificates of good conduct, and applications for clemency. ##REENTRY##

A comprehensive pre and post release reentry program provided by Peaceprints in collaboration with the Erie County Sheriff’s Office. Pre-Release Services include:

• Intensive Case Management
• Specialty Housing inside the "Project Blue Pod"
• Ready, Set, Work! Employment Workshop
• Court Advocacy
• Empower You Speaker Series
• Optional Fatherhood Program
• Optional Restorative Circles

Post-Release Services Include:

• Intensive Case Management
• Mentoring & Retention Services
• Court Advocacy
• Housing Coordination
• Entitlement & Benefits Assistance
• Connection to Treatment Providers & Medical
• Educational & Workforce Linkages

##REENTRY##

Books, periodicals, CDs, audio tapes and video tapes on contemporary issue-oriented resources often unavailable from other libraries; accessible through Finger Lakes Library System inter-library loan services. public internet access poetry projects in area prisons and the Ithaca community. partners with two village libraries in Yoff and Ngor, Senegal, West Africa, through exchanges of materials, cultural understanding and exploration of different lifestyles. Prisoner Express promotes rehabilitation of inmates through: information, education and opportunities for creative self-expression in a public forum website, www.prisonerexpress.org sending books to incarcerated individuals throughout the U.S. prisoner writing program, pen-pal program and distance learning

Assists the Christian Church on Long Island in the responsible evangelism of troubled youth and their families offering hope through caring relationships and developmental opportunities for the whole person (spiritual, mental, physical, social). Services include ministries for mothers, those in jail, and one-to-one approaches. Also offers an afterschool tutoring program called Partners To Potential for children 7-10 years of age. Also partners with a vast amount of churches in Nassau and Suffolk Counties.

Provides educational services to minors under 21 years of age in the Riverhead and Yaphank Correctional Facilities, for a minimum of 15 hours per week, to prepare students for TASC™ or Regents testing. Also available are Tutoring, Remedial Education, ENL, and Career and Technical Education, and Career/Life Planning and anger management. The program is designed to prepare students to complete the requirements for a Regents, Local or High School Equivalency Diploma. Courses of study infuse contextualized learning, career preparation and skills achievement into daily lessons.

Inmate look-up, parolee look-up, and most-wanted look-up information. Help in filing complaints against mistreatment of individuals who are incarcerated. Re-entry program which assist in a smooth transition in returning home from prison with housing, mental health and medical treatment and services, and more. Assist individuals to find out about parole processing and appeals.

Provides spiritual and personal counseling for inmates as requested. Provides after-incarceration guidance through a local church discipleship program. Offers weekly Alcoholics Anonymous meetings, weekly Bible Studies, a Clean Sober Saved program, and chapel services for men and women. Also assists with transitional housing when available. ##REENTRY##

Provides mitigation services including client specific planning and defense-based sentencing advocacy.

Provides adolescents remanded to Nassau County Juvenile Detention Center with mandated and ancillary educational, cultural and recreational services. Call for further information.

Provides mental health assessment, ongoing counseling, psychiatric evaluation and medication therapy, mental health and substance use disorder screening, crisis intervention, pre-release treatment planning, post-release referral and case management, and advocacy for incarcerated or recently released individuals presenting with mental health problems, in order to improve adjustments to and functioning within the community, increase completion of linkage with outpatient mental health services, and reduce the relapse into criminal behavior.