Welcome to Community Corrections

Vision Statement: 

Provide a team of professionals committed to improving our community and supporting public safety through positive change in the lives of our clients. 

Mission Statement:  

Community Corrections provides parole and probation supervision, services and sanction programs through proven strategies aimed at preventing future criminal behavior while emphasizing community and victim reparation.  We strive to make the most of available resources to protect the community while also promoting client accountability and positive change.   

Overview: 

Polk County Community Corrections works in partnership with the courts, law enforcement, and the State Board of Parole and Post-Prison Supervision to supervise approximately 625 felony and misdemeanor offenders within our community.  We provide an important balance of public safety, offender accountability, and reformation.  

Changing criminal behavior is most effective with the use of evidenced-based practices and programs that assist offenders in taking responsibility for their criminal behavior and the harm they have done to their victims.

Public Safety

Citizens have a right to live in a safe and healthy community and must be protected during the time an offender is under community supervision. To assist with this supervision a range of interventions appropriate to the varying risks presented by offenders are used. These interventions focus on both appropriate responses to the present criminal behavior and to moving the offender toward healthy, pro-social community membership. Community safety cannot be achieved without meaningful accountability for the harms already caused and the reformation of criminal thinking and behavior for the reduction of recidivism. 

Offender Accountability

Criminal behavior affects and harms individuals and the community. Criminal behavior creates an obligation on the part of the offender to make amends to those they have harmed. The offender must meaningfully address this obligation through personal actions. Community Corrections works to direct resources toward holding offenders accountable. Offenders should be provided opportunities to make amends and repair the harm in ways that are meaningful to those impacted.

Offender Reformation

Offenders should leave the justice system more capable of being positive, contributing members of the community than when they entered the system. Rather than simply receiving treatment and services aimed at suppressing problem behavior, offenders should take measurable steps toward becoming a positive citizen, and improving their ability to function as productive, responsible citizens.

The community must play an active role in assisting this growth by providing opportunities for the integration of offenders into the community as offenders take responsibility for their actions and seek to make amends.

Polk County Community Corrections utilizes a wide range of evidence based practices and programming, educational, skill building, treatment and intervention resources to assist offenders and their families.

Some programs available to those on community supervision in Polk County include:

For information on additional services available in the area click Mid Valley Resource Guide

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