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Mission Statement: Community Corrections Programs are strategically placed statewide in an effort to enhance community partnerships while providing community based alternatives to detention. The community-based alternatives focus on protecting society, addressing the concerns of crime victims, and providing supervision to offenders in the community. More specifically, all community service programs are to have a coordinated office which provides: 1) Alternatives to incarceration; 2) Repayment to the community for inappropriate or unlawful behavior; and 3) A positive support system. Statewide Annual Statistical Report The first community service program was established in Williston in December of 1991. That program, along with 14 other agencies across the State, has thrived and continues to provide community service opportunities for offenders. These 15 independent community service agencies are located strategically throughout the State and provide community-based alternatives to detention. The Community Service Agencies provide the opportunity for adult, juvenile, and misdemeanor offenders to perform their court-ordered community service obligations by working at non-profit organizations and the community at large. The Division of Field Services allows offenders to perform community service in lieu of paying their program/supervision fees at the rate of $6 for each hour of community service they perform. The community service agencies established the North Dakota Community Corrections Association in 1995. Representatives from each agency meet at least three times during the year to support one another, have common training, work at developing goals and projects, share ideas and methods to better supervise/monitor offenders and provide for the seamless transfer of clientele from one community service agency to another. Community service provides a way for offenders to give back to the community for the crimes they committed. Individuals who have given back to the community by giving of themselves through their labor, have experienced a stronger, more positive sense of self esteem, and an appreciation for restoring to their community something that they had taken away by their actions/crimes. Community service . . . is giving service to the community. Statewide Annual
Statistical Report
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Site |
Total Number of Offenders | Total
Adults |
Total
Juveniles |
Hours
Worked |
Value
of Hours Worked |
| Bismarck Rural | 586 | 145 | 441 | 9,244 | $55,464 |
| Bismarck Urban | 664 | 664 | 0 | 21,049 | $126,294 |
| Devils Lake | 195 | 78 | 117 | 6,893 | $41,358 |
| Dickinson | 376 | 237 | 139 | 11,512 | $69,072 |
| Fargo | 1,119 | 927 | 192 | 28,965 | $173,790 |
| Forman-Sargent | 39 | 31 | 8 | 1,050 | $6,300 |
| Grand Forks | 382 | 382 | 0 | 10,418 | $62,508 |
| Jamestown | 577 | 534 | 43 | 15,495 | $92,970 |
| Minot | 361 | 287 | 74 | 9,487 | $56,922 |
| Rugby | 145 | 85 | 60 | 6,694 | $40,164 |
| Valley City | 189 | 148 | 41 | 5,862 | $35,172 |
| Wahpeton | 512 | 507 | 5 | 9,454 | $56,724 |
| Wells County | 18 | 15 | 3 | 429 | $2,574 |
| Williston | 295 | 125 | 170 | 6,345 | $38,070 |
| TOTALS | 5,458 | 4,165 | 1,293 | 142,894 | $857,364 |
During the last fiscal year a grand total of 142,894 hours of community service were performed. These hours were completed by adult and juvenile offenders referred by municipal and district courts, probation officers in the Field Services Division and juvenile justice system. To calculate a dollar amount for the hours completed, we have used our standard rate $6 an hour which, when multiplied out, gives the value of the community service hours for the year at $857,364. There is no way to calculate the impact of labor done for the community from either the eyes of the community or the offender.
The annual total number of offenders may be slightly inflated, due to quarterly gathering of statistics, in that some offenders have worked in more than one quarter.