Alternatives

The alpha house: a men's pre-release center (prc) located in billings, mt, serves as an intermediate step between prisons and the community. Offenders live in this prc under twenty-four hour a day supervision for approximately six months. The residents are required to obtain employment, participate in counseling, abstain from the use of drugs or alcohol, maintain strict accountability for facility rules, obtain a residence for release, and demonstrate that they are ready to return to the community as productive citizens.

Jail Alternatives and misdemeanor probation provides community corrections, rehabilitative and treatment services to yellowstone, stillwater and carbon counties for over 5,000 community and local offenders. Jail Alternatives provides supervision and treatment sevices designed to reduce jail overcrowding, teach responsibility, permit non-dangerous offenders to retain employment, and save taxpayer money. The misdemeanor program provides yellowstone county with pretrial and probationary services with particular effectiveness in dui and partner/family member assault.

Passages is a community corrections prerelease center that prepares female adult offenders from the Montana state womens prison, federal bureau of prisons, and Montana probation and parole. In addition to providing supervision, treatment and rehabilitative programming is provided to the offenders to help and challenge them be successful in their integration into society as productive citizens. Passages also provides two secured supervision and treatment programs for female offenders: an alcohol and drug treatment unit and an assessment, sanction, revocation and hold center. All units utilize the therapeutic community model which is designed to instill the concept of "right living".