WHAT IS THE RE-ENTRY PROCESS?
Re-entry is a system-wide process beginning at intake and
encompassing all efforts to assist offenders in acquiring the skills,
education, pro-social attitude and behaviors necessary to be successful in
society. Successful re-entry includes
job acquisition, re-uniting with family members, acquiring housing, access to
mental health and medical services, and the means to have a purposeful and
meaningful life.
Programming plays a crucial role in the re-entry
process. NDOC offers re-entry specific
programming, mental health programming, vocational programming, educational
programming and substance abuse programming. At CGTH, we have additionally
partnered with Alcoholics Anonymous, Narcotics Anonymous, God Behind Bars, and Hope For Prisoners
for addiction management and voluntary religious programming for community
trustees.
For a listing of the programs available to offenders while
under NDOC supervision go to the Correctional Programs link menu option to the
left.
NEVADA’S RE-ENTRY VISION
Nevada’s
Re-entry Vision is dedicated to reducing the rate of offenders returning to
incarceration by utilizing collaborative interagency partnerships and
nationwide best practices for re-entry programming. Success for an offender is
defined as: having stable housing and employment, effective treatment,
positive personal relationships, family support and appropriate supervision
that will enable productive and law-abiding lives. Nevada believes it has
an economic and moral imperative to support offenders recently released from
custody to regain entry into the community.
The returning citizen will:
Maintain a crime
free life style;
Obtain employment
or educational/vocational opportunities in the community;
Reconnect with
the family members or children; and
Have access to
behavioral health and physical health services.