Program Reports

Community Corrections’ commitment to quality management has transpired into tradition of regular program evaluation and transparent publication of its performance measures. Allen County Community Corrections provides this information to inform the public, future candidates for employment, and share its operations with its program counterparts in Indiana.

Project Presentations

The links immediately below are assets compiled for presentations regarding the development of the Reentry Court Program in Fort Wayne, Indiana.  The program nears fifteen (15) years of operations in 2016.  The Reentry Court Program maintains a strong emphasis on forensic evaluation and placement in appropriate programming.

Community Corrections & Criminal Justice in the News

Community Corrections remains at the forefront of implementation of evidence-based practices in Criminal Justice. The following resources chronicle the agency's public presence in the Fort Wayne Community, and the State of Indiana.

2004-2006

• Attorney General Ashcroft Recognizes ACCC
• HIRE Newsletter: Motivational Interviewing

2007

• Allen County Parolees to Test GPS Monitoring
• GPS Tests for Sex Offenders
• Proposed Facility offer Housing for Ex-Cons
• Commissioners Approve GPS Monitoring

2008

• Ex-con Transitional Housing Explored
• Housing for Ex-convicts
• Housing Under Debate
• Transitional Housing Explored
• Combined Police Offices
• Sheriff's Headquarters Gets Top Priority
• Local Plan to Give Housing to Ex-inmates

2009

• Convicts Come Home
• Detention Agency at Odds with Credit
• Hotel Site Proposed for Housing Offenders
• New Life for Treatment Center
• Non-profit on Mission to Aid Ex-offenders, BJI
• Former Motel Could House Ex-prisoners
• Parenting Model Aids Crime Fight
• Treatment Center Goes to County
• Treatment Center Approved to Reopen
• Washington House Mission

2010

• A Place for Inmates
• AC Commissioner Opposes New Corrections Building Near Jail
• AC Court Violates HD Guidelines
• Fewer Homes Partake in Grinding of Greens
• Finding God's Purpose in Jail
• House's Aim to put Criminal's Lives in Order
• Indiana's CJ system could change soon
• Jail like a mental institution
• Juvenile facility closes
• Kelley House to offer life beyond drugs
• Prison costs breaking budget
• Prison population full, revisit code
• Smarter, not softer sentences
• State to visit sentencing guides
• State ranks 38th in health
• Washington House to be Resurrected
• Welcome Alternative

2011

• Ankle Monitor Propmotes Accountability
• Correcting Corrections - Sentencing Reforms
• Correcting Corrections - Prison System in Trouble
• Correcting Corrections - Local Systems and Costs of Reforms
• Correcting Corrections - Melissa on House Arrest - Part 1
• Correcting Corrections - Melissa on House Arrest - Part 2
• Cost of Sentence Bill Questioned
• County Reserves Could Pay Debt
• Hard Sentences Come at Big Price
• Indiana Prison Locations and Statistics
• Next Step for Sentencing
• Packed Prisons Burden Budgets
• Plan Cuts Prison Time for Non-Violent Criminals
• Politics Imperils Sentencing Plan
• Scaled-down Justice
• Sentencing Bill May Change Again
• Sentencing Shift Worries Counties
• State Has a Setback on Plan to Reform Prisons

2012

• Allen Superior Court Judge Surbeck 1st Hoosier to win Rehnquist Award
• Sentencing Reform Undertaken with Opposite Premise
• Thanksgiving Editorial - Sheila Hudson

2013

• ACCC Thanks Allen County Christmas Bureau
• Blue Jacket Nonprofit Expands 2nd Chances
• Breaking Free (BJI Article)
• Good Reentry Programs Save Money & Help People
• Allen County OKs pact training inmates
• Craig Bobay named Superior Court Judge
• Growing Problem with Impatiens (AES Article)
• Longtime CC Director Retiring - Mrs. Sheila Hudson

2014

• Community Corrections Gets New Chief - Kim Churchward

2015

• Treatment Center Closes Doors
• Committee approves bill to fund criminal justice programs
• IDOC Media update
• Allen Co. Probationers Participate in National UDS Testing Study
• Allen County Community Corrections Reaches Milestone

2016

• Grant to help IN County Community Corrections Program Grow
• Carrol Co. Developing Community Corrections Program
• Growing Probation Rolls Worry County Officials in Indiana
• Community Corrections Expands GPS Monitoring
• Howard County contemplates WR Facility
• ACCC Completes Update to GPS Monitoring
• 45 Graduate from Drug Court Class
• ACCC Expands GPS Monitoring
• Seven Graduate from Veterans Court

2017

• IDOC Cost-Saving Move Dissapoints