Community Corrections

Mission Statement

Provide cost effective programs utilizing evidence-based practices to generate positive change.

Components of Community Corrections

• Home Detention/GPS Electronic Monitoring
• Scram Remote Alcohol Breath Testing
• Community Transition Program

Procedures for Admission

The Defendant must complete the above Intake Form and then schedule an interview.  To schedule an interview please call the Office at (574) 935-8782.  The appointment must be at least two weeks prior to your sentencing date. 

The Offender will be required to appear 15 minutes prior to the scheduled interview to complete the Rules and Conditions of Community Corrections OR come by our office prior to scheduled interview to pick up a copy of the Rules and Conditions.

Eligible Requirements include but are not limited to the following

• Permanent Residence
• Financial Ability to Pay the Required Fees
• Must be Employed
• Have not been removed from this or any other Community Correction Program within the past seven (7) years
• Must not have a history of convictions involving, resisting LE, violence involving weapons or criminal sexual acts
• Not considered a risk or threat to the community
• Have had no history of escape and/or absconding
• Currently have no warrants, detainers, holds or orders of protection issued by a Court of another Jurisdiction

The following is a list of characteristics that disqualify an individual from being placed on Home Detention

1. Multiple prior (history of) convictions involving resisting, violence, weapons, or criminal sexual acts;
2. History of escape and /or absconding;
3. Expelled or discharged unsatisfactorily from any prior community correction program;
4. Flight risk or a threat to the physical safety of the public;
5. Serious mental or physical illness that hider their abilities to follow the guidelines of Marshall County Community Corrections;
6. Conviction of an ineligible offense in the preceding seven (7) years from the current conviction date (see the below list of offenses); or
7. Currently has a warrant, detainer, hold, or order of protection issued by a court of another jurisdiction.

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