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Work Release Center

Work Release Center. Currently located in downtown Lafayette for over past 5 years. Operated and staffed 24 hours per day, 7 days per week by specially trained staff. Housing consists of 190 male beds and 16 female beds that are physically separated by sight and sound of each other.

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Work Release Center

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  1. Work Release Center

  2. Currently located in downtown Lafayette for over past 5 years. Operated and staffed 24 hours per day, 7 days per week by specially trained staff. Housing consists of 190 male beds and 16 female beds that are physically separated by sight and sound of each other. About Our Facility

  3. To increase long term community protection by returning offenders back into society as productive citizens with employment, cash savings, and the skills to maintain a responsible lifestyle by providing the opportunity to re-establish dignity and self-esteem and to facilitate the transition back into the community as a responsible adult. Work Release Program Mission

  4. Work Release Program Description A residential alternative to incarceration which allows offenders to be released from the LPCC and housed at the Work Release Center. State sentenced, Parish sentenced, and pre-trial offenders may participate if approved. All participants are expected to maintain employment and pay all program fees, obligations, and expenses from such employment.

  5. Work Release Program Challenges • Limited bed space within the LPCC is decreasing the availability of potential participants. • The aging physical plant of the facility is increasingly problematic. • Other programs throughout the state with single large-scale isolated incidents resulting in heavy oversight by Department of Public Safety & Corrections.

  6. 2008-2009 Work Release Residents

  7. 2008 vs. 2009 Work Release Participant Earning

  8. Completions vs. Removals

  9. $11,233,177 participant earnings from employment $93,490 in health care expense related taxpayer savings $69,899 in court ordered restitution payments from participants’ earnings $212,175 in court ordered child support payments from participants’ earnings 872 successful program completions $3,362,375 in savings immediately available to participants upon return to society Work Release Program Stats

  10. 2010 Work Release Goals

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