Mesa County Upgrades Offender Management
MESA, Colo. — Mesa County Criminal Justice Services Department (CJSD), located in Colorado’s Mesa County, recently modernized its offender management system, using the cloud to improve oversight. The department — which offers monitoring, program and treatment services to criminal justice agencies, local communities, victims and others impacted by offenders — opted for Tribridge’s Offender360. The cloud-based program provides correctional and other public safety institutions with a scalable, cost-effective solution for managing offenders from intake to release, according to Tribridge.
“We’ve made a commitment to Mesa County to deliver effective, innovative, dynamic and fiscally responsible management practices,” said Matthew Sullivan, division director for Mesa County Criminal Justice Department, in a statement. “Offender360 is designed for systems like ours, and it’s making life easier for our case managers, who now have real-time access to client data, and it’s improving the effectiveness of the many programs that we provide to clients.”
Tribridge’s Offender360 program provides CJSD case managers with a central hub where they can access updated client reports and other offender data critical to managing their care. Department personnel can easily evaluate treatment programming and track outcome measures, including completion rates, recidivism studies and employment history, and coordinate continuation of care. This better prepares offenders for transition back into their communities and reduces the risk of future criminal behavior, according to the company.
“Like many state and local institutions, Mesa Country CJSD is under increasing scrutiny to provide tax payer-funded services more cost-effectively,” said Josh Jaquish, vice president, Public Sector at Tribridge. “Technology solutions such as Tribridge Offender360 are the path forward for many corrections departments nationwide, offering cost-effective solutions that dramatically improve offender management and lead to better outcomes community-wide.”
Offender360 was built on Microsoft Dynamics CRM and focuses on three specific areas of corrections management: offender management, facilities management and community corrections management. The program manages data related to sentence and time accounting, offender demographics, security threat group tracking; visitation scheduling; drug testing scheduling; recidivism reduction and management; and housing and bed assignment, according to the company.