Detox services lacking in Rock County
Rock County's Criminal Justice Coordinating Council is discussing "Wrap Around Services" for the county jail's RECAP programs.
Sheriff's Commander Tom Gehl says those services help people detox before they enter the programs to get basic level service, so they're clean of substances when they start the programs and can start treatment in earnest. He says the county is seeing the gaps in service in both RECAP, Community RECAP, and in connection with the county's heroin problem. He says the Sheriff's Office wants the CJCC to review the need and formulate solutions to the problem.
He says people involved in the RECAP programs will describe how they're affected when people who aren't clean of chemical substances go into the program.
The CJCC is composed of members from different elements of the criminal justice system. It meets Thursday.
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May 24, 2009 at 5:07 p.m.
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they check the recap people out pretty good when they get back. You can't say they all come back under the influence because that's not always the case. When they do graduate they are tested randomly for drugs when they go to see their p.o..
Apr 16, 2009 at 8:32 a.m.
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Well, all I can say is that when many inmates get out of jail for Huber or RECAP work, they come back to the jail either under the influence of drugs or alcohol or enter with contraband "on their person" in rather determined ways. They need to get a handle on this before they waste more money trying to "make" inmates get clean against their will...just my 2 cents.
Apr 15, 2009 at 9:49 p.m.
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Hey..take them out to a hockey game..
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