Specifications include, but are not limited to: The department requires a contractor to provide a residential halfway house facility (CRC) for offenders in order to provide security, food, shelter, transportation, supervision, and the additional services specified herein and according to the minimums specified in the currently adopted set of Community Residential Center Operational Standards. The CRC will facilitate the safe and successful transition of offenders from incarceration to being productive members of the community. To facilitate the transition from institutional confinement back into the community, offenders may request and receive furlough to a Community Residential Center (CRC). After placement in a CRC, offenders are restricted to the center except for specifically approved passes from the facility for the purpose of work, education, treatment, and/or counseling activities. Residents must be engaged in approved employment, education or community work service projects, or some combination of these activities to constitute a full workweek of at least forty hours. As an intermediate sanction for parole/probationers who commit violations of parole/probation conditions, CRC’s serve as a “halfway-in” facility to provide support, structure, and more supervision than parole/probation supervision can provide. These individuals are allowed to continue employment in the community but must return to the facility when not at work. Community Residential Center also serves as an intermediate sanction for confined misdemeanants/felons who are placed in the center in lieu of incarceration. These placements are not allowed to leave the facility unless they are participating in community work service projects with direct supervision, and/or other approved Department of Corrections supervision. All offenders in Community Residential Centers (with the exception of unsentenced and confined misdemeanants/felons are expected to enter into, and progress through, a “multi-level” program. The program is designed to be responsive to individual and collective offender needs and to provide increasing opportunities for resident independence and responsibility. The “multi-level” program provides incentives for those offenders, through increased privileges, who demonstrate progress in learning skills and behaviors through participation in the program, which will support the successful reintegration of offenders back into the community.
