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Coconino County officials brief Sedona council on Hope Receiving Center, Exodus jail program and treatment-court expansion
Summary
Coconino County's Criminal Justice Coordinating Council presented deflection and treatment-focused programs designed to reduce recidivism, including a repurposed juvenile pod called the Hope Receiving Center, an in-jail substance-use program called Exodus, a Pathways reentry corridor and a set of specialty treatment courts.
Representatives of the Coconino County Criminal Justice Coordinating Council told the Sedona City Council that community-focused deflection, diversion and problem-solving courts are central to the county's strategy for reducing repeat offending and improving outcomes for people who interact with the justice system.
Presiding Judge Ted Reed described a sequential-intercept approach designed to divert people from deeper court involvement at the earliest possible point, and to match the level of supervision and service to a person's assessed risk and need. "Our approach is called sequential intercept," Reed said, summarizing a framework that seeks to prevent people from moving downstream into more punitive and less rehabilitative stages of the system.
County Attorney Amon Barker and Legal…
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