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Community reentry group testifies in court, urges supervision over incarceration
Summary
The CEO of Urban Apostles described mentoring, job-placement and reentry services and urged the court to allow community supervision for a justice-involved youth; the court referenced the program when ordering treatment as part of conditions.
A program director told a Bexar County court that reentry-focused mentoring and referrals can support rehabilitation for justice-impacted youth.
Lloyd Patterson, who testified that he is CEO of Urban Apostles, described the nonprofit's mission and services while on the stand: intervention, prevention, gang debriefing, substance-use support, job-placement and peer-mentoring. "We provide intervention and prevention services," Patterson said. He told the court the program has worked with Bexar County Juvenile Probation and estimated the group had served roughly 50–55 young people, adding an asserted 87 percent success rate on some measures.
Patterson detailed how the program keeps participants accountable through peer mentors, honesty circles and escalation to higher levels of care when necessary. He told the court the group can maintain involvement with participants into young adulthood and coordinate with probation officers by keeping an open line of communication and inviting officers to events. "We have an open line of communication," he said.
The judge and counsel relied on the testimony when the court ordered continued treatment with Urban Apostles as a condition of deferred adjudication for one defendant. The transcript records the court saying treatment "with the Urban Apostles" as part of monitoring and supervision conditions.
Provenance: topicintro: SEG 323; topfinish: SEG 532.
