The reality is more of the people who pass through Colorado’s halfway houses end up incarcerated than rehabilitated. (via propublica)
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Otten recalled that after a bathroom was defaced at one facility, “instead of getting to the bottom of it to figure out who did it,” staff put all residents on lockdown. “They made everyone stay in, miss work, miss everything,” she said. The facility, which like all Colorado halfway houses controls residents’ finances, then took money from everyone for repairs.
Broderrick Rimes, a former ComCor security manager who left the company in July 2021, said the enforcement of rules was often dictated by what was financially beneficial to the facility. When clients broke a rule, staff contacted the billing department to see if they had paid their rent. Michael Anthony Martinez sings during services with housemates from the Hope House, a sober living home, at Sterling Foursquare Church on Sunday, March 13, 2022. Since his release, he has been sent to another halfway house to complete an addiction treatment program and then transferred back to the facility that sent him to prison. One in five residents of Colorado’s halfway houses is completing a sentence related to substance abuse, according to the state’s three most recent annual reports.
Over the past five years, 66% of residents enrolled in intensive residential treatment programs graduated. “I’m ready to be successful man and show everybody that I can do something right,” he said. “Because this is just sickening. In and out, in and out.” Ruske, of the state’s oversight agency, told ProPublica that the financial relationship was not disclosed to the state. ICCS’ contract with the state requires disclosure of potential conflicts of interest. Neither Sengenberger nor BTS responded to emailed questions.
Samuelson ultimately graduated from the residential program and, after being homeless for more than a decade, moved into her own apartment. And for the first time in her adult life, she wasn’t using meth. But less than a year later, she relapsed and failed a drug test. The facility brought her back into the program then sent her to prison.
A photograph of Alycia Samuelson’s son, at right, and her grandfather, hangs on a cabinet in her apartment. While at the now-closed Williams Street halfway house in Denver, a series of tragic events, including her son being diagnosed with cancer, led her to be suicidal. However, she said she got no help from staff at the house. She ran away to get help and save her own life, she said.
“If all they have are other people who are part of the criminal justice system and underpaid, underqualified people providing treatment, they’re not going to they need,” Brndiar said.Employment is key in determining whether someone stays out of prison, according to academic studies and reports by Colorado’s Division of Criminal Justice. Yet state audits show employment services are some of the least-available resources in state halfway houses.
“The future strategic goals of the office include developing processes for reviewing compliance with the additional Colorado Community Corrections Standards not currently reviewed,” OCC said in a written statement. Otten said residents at the two Jefferson County facilities were pressured to accept the first job they found in order to start paying rent. The jobs were often low paying, ultimately slowing their reentry process.
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