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WATCH EAST
  • Glendive Community
  • Montana Department of Corrections
  • Community, Counseling, & Correctional Services, Inc.
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CCCS, Inc.—Mission Statement
  • Community, Counseling, and Correctional Services, Inc. is a professional team who promote public safety, preserve the rights of victims, fulfill the mandates of the criminal justice system, and address the individual needs of adults and juveniles.
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CCCS, Inc.
Overview & History
  • Private, not-for-profit, 501-c(3) corporation.


  • Incorporated in 1983.


  • Headquartered in Butte, Montana.


  • Governed by a non-compensated Board of Directors—many of whom are the original board members.


  • Providing services for local, state, and federal agencies since 1983.


  • Providing correctional and other human service programs designed for adults and juveniles.
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Butte Pre-Release Center
 Butte, Montana
    • CCCS purchased and renovated an old dilapidated hotel to its current use as a community-based correctional facility.
    • Began providing services in December 1983.
    • Pre-release center for adult male offenders.
    • 126-bed capacity.
    • American Correctional Association (ACA) accredited since 1998.
    • Contracts with the Montana Department of Corrections & Federal Bureau of Prisons.


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Women’s Transitional Center
 Butte, Montana
    • CCCS purchased and renovated an old dilapidated hotel to its current use as a community-based correctional facility.
    • Began providing services in July 1992.
    • Pre-release center for adult female offenders.
    • 60-bed capacity.
    • ACA accredited since 1998.
    • Contracts with the Montana Department of Corrections & Federal Bureau of Prisons.

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Martin Hall Juvenile Detention Facility
 Medical Lake, Washington
    • Facility is located on a state-hospital campus, owned by the State of Washington, leased to the Martin Hall Juvenile Detention Facility Board, and sub-leased to CCCS.
    • CCCS began operating facility November 1998 under contract with a 9-county consortium in Eastern Washington.
    • Detention facility for juveniles.
    • 63-bed capacity.
    • Contracts with several counties in Eastern Washington & Montana as well as Immigration Service and several Native American Tribes in Eastern Washington.
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WATCh Program
 Warm Springs, Montana
    • Located on a state hospital campus, owned by the Montana Department of Corrections and leased to CCCS.
    • Began providing services in February 2002.
    • 6-month modified therapeutic community for adult male and female, 4th or subsequent DUI offenders.
    • 156-bed capacity.
    • Contracts with the Montana Department of Corrections.




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Bismarck Transition Center
 Bismarck, North Dakota
    • Facility owned and renovated by a group of private investors and long-term leased to CCCS.
    • Began providing services in August 2002.
    • Transition center for adult male offenders in North Dakota.
    • Facility was expanded to 150-bed capacity in June 2006.
    • ACA accredited facility.
    • Contracts with the North Dakota Department of Corrections & Rehabilitation, Cities of Bismarck and Mandan, ND.



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RYO Correctional Facility
 Galen, Montana
    • Designed, financed, constructed, and owned by CCCS.  Largest project to-date supported by the Rural Lending Program. $9.5 million facility.  Construction amortized over 20 years.
    • Began providing service in December 2002.
    • Secure juvenile correctional (long-term)/detention (short-term) facility.
    • 60-bed capacity.
    • Accredited school.
    • ACA accreditation since January 2004.
    • Contracts with Federal Bureau of Prisons, U.S. Marshal’s Service, Bureau of Indian affairs and multiple counties throughout Montana.



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Connections Corrections Program Butte, Montana
    • CCCS purchased dilapidated building and infused $1.0 million in renovations to its current use as an addictions treatment facility.
    • Began providing service in March 1998.
    • 60-day intensive addictions treatment program for adult male and female offenders.
    • 42-bed capacity, with consistent waiting list of 100-150 offenders.
    • Contracts with Montana Department of Corrections and Montana District U.S. Probation Services.

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Gallatin County Re-Entry Program
Bozeman, Montana
    • Located on property owned by Gallatin County.  CCCS designed, financed, and constructed facility that will be transferred to County at the end of 10 years.
    • Began providing service in December 2005.
    • Multiple use (pre-release/work-release/drug court sanction/detention/re-entry) facility for adult male offenders.
    • 40-bed capacity, including 10 county beds and 30 state beds.
    • Contracts with Gallatin County and the Montana Department of Corrections.

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START Program
Warm Springs, Montana
    • Sanction, Treatment, Assessment, Revocation and Transition center for adult male offenders developed as an alternative to prison or jail for those individual who have violated the terms of parole, probation, or pre-release placement.
    • Began providing services in December 2005.
    • 88-bed capacity.
    • Secure double bunked cells.
    • Highly structured intensive treatment models designed to encourage cognitive and behavioral change.
    • Sanction/Assessment placement ranging from 10 to 180 days.
    • Contracts the Montana Department of Corrections.

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WATCh East Program
Glendive, Montana
  • Located at a facility owned by the Montana Department of Corrections and leased to CCCS.
  • Began providing services in February 2005.
  • 6-month modified therapeutic community for adult female offenders and some male offenders from Eastern Montana, all 4th or subsequent DUI offenders.
  • 40-bed capacity.
  • Contracts with the Montana Department of Corrections.



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WATCh East
Security & Control
  • 24-hour staff coverage—including security/perimeter technicians.


  • Physically secure facility.


  • Internal and external camera systems.


  • Alarmed doors and exits.


  • Low staff to offender ratios.


  • Secure—fenced—perimeter as necessary.


  • Restricted public access.


  • Regular and random security counts—felony escape charges are filed against any client who leaves without authorization.


  • Regular and random breathalyzer and urinalysis collection testing.


  • Restricted offender movement.
    • Only movement outside of the facility will be for medical or dental visits and recreation activities.
    • All movement outside the facility is staff controlled and supervised.
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WATCh East
Addictions Treatment
  • Comprehensive addictions treatment services based on the Minnesota Model.


  • Individualized case planning with regular reviews and updates.


  • 30-35 hours of group and individual programming and counseling each week.


  • 1 addictions counselor and counselor technician for every 10-15 offenders.


  • Alcoholics Anonymous (AA).


  • Case management and aftercare planning staff.


  • Aftercare planning.


  • Relapse prevention services based on Gorski Model.


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WATCh East
Other Programming
  • Addictions education—including videos and lectures.


  • Criminal thinking error identification with thinking logs and reports.


  • Cognitive behavioral programming.


  • Anger management.


  • Parenting & relationship programming.


  • Religious programming.


  • Employment skill development.


  • Specialized programming including—Big Book Study, women’s specific groups, Native American specific programming.


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WATCh East
Other Program Components
  • Supervised recreation opportunities.


  • Scheduled on-site visitation.  All visitation will be conducted inside the facility under direct staff supervision.


  • Programming provided by volunteer and other community resources—religious, etc.


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WATCh East
Daily Schedule
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WATCh East
Daily Schedule (continued)
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WATCh East
Job Creation
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WATCh East
Salary & Wage Information
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Other CCCS Programs and Services
  • Enhanced Supervisory Program (ESP)
  • Operation in multiple counties
  • Urinalysis/breathalyzer testing
  • Curfews
  • 24-hour monitoring
  • Daily reporting
  • Treatment/Programming: cognitive/restructuring, criminal thinking errors, individual and group chemical dependency programming, anger management, etc.
  • Job training
  • Employment and home visits
  • Alternative Reporting Program
  • Day reporting program for adult male & female offenders
  • Serves as a continuum of care for those offenders exiting from a pre-release program
  • Program also used by district and municipal courts as a diversion program


  • Transportation
  • 6 years experience providing adult and juvenile transport services for federal, state, and local governments in Montana, Washington, and North Dakota
  • Transportation is provided using state-of-the-art secure caged vehicles
  • Professionally trained staff, with same sex staff member provided when transporting females
  • Vehicles equipped with necessary restraints in accordance with acceptable correctional policies and procedures
  • All facilities also provide non secure transportation services when appropriate: vehicles and staff members adequately insured, users name on policy as additional insured
  • Other Programs and Services
  • Batterers’ intervention program
  • Anger management program
  • Addictions Counseling
  • Booking: pre- and post-adjudicated offenders


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CCCS
Employee Benefit Information
  • Major medical health insurance that includes prescription benefit and term life insurance policy.


  • Direct reimbursement dental program.


  • Long-term disability insurance.


  • 120 hours of annual leave during first year.  Increases after 10 years based on years of service.


  • Educational reimbursement program.




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Questions
  • Mike Thatcher, Chief Executive Officer, CCCS
    • 406-782-0417 (phone)
    • 406-782-6964 (fax)
    • mthatcher@cccscorp.com


  • Deb Dion, Program Administrator, WATCh East
    • 406-377-6001, ext. 27 (phone)
    • 406-377-6004 (fax)
    • ddion@cccscorp.com