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Pre-Release and Reentry Services

Academy of Architecture for Justice Amereican Institution for Architects, Washington DC Presentation (PDF) November 17, 2023 
Ivan Downing, DOCR Chief of Community Corrections and Stefan LoBuglio, Principal, Justice Innovations LLC

Pre-Release and Reentry Services

Criminal Justice Coordinating Commission (CJCC) PRC Update Presentation (PDF) September 27, 2023

News Videos

Accreditation DiscussionBroken Justice SeriesPresident Obama addresses NAACP

Director Ben Stevenson & Councilmember Dawn Luedtke Accreditation Discussion

Link to the PBS Series: Broken Justice

President Obama addressed the NAACP in Philadelphia July 14, 2015 and noted the work of Montgomery County. Specifically, he said

“Our prisons should be a place where we can train people for skills that can help them find a job, not train them to become more hardened criminals. Look, I don’t want to pretend like this is all easy.  But some places are doing better than others.  Montgomery County, Maryland put a job training center inside the prison walls to give folks a head start in thinking about what might you do otherwise than committing crime.  That’s a good idea."  

The White House Office of the Press Secretary: Remarks by the President at the NAACP Conference,  Pennsylvania Convention Center Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, July 14, 2015

Opportunity for All
College’s Presence at County Jail Creates Hope for Inmates

U. S. Secretary of Education Visits County’s Correctional Facility

U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos visited the Montgomery County Correctional Facility (MCCF) in Boyds, Maryland, to learn about the facility’s education programs and to also learn more about the nexus of education and workforce development as it relates to Reentry. While At the MCCF, Secretary DeVos met the County’s Department of Correction and Rehabilitation Director Robert Green and his staff along with Montgomery College President Dr. DeRionne Pollard, and other representatives from Montgomery College; Montgomery County Public Schools; and WorkSource Montgomery, Inc. The MCCF was selected by the Secretary’s Director of Correctional Education due to the facility and it programs delivering high-quality reentry education and training to their population. see  press release

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Advisory Committees

• Montgomery County Detention Center | Rockville Neighborhood Advisory Committee
• Montgomery County Correctional Facility | Clarksburg Advisory Group
• Pre-Release and Reentry Services | PRRS (PRC/CART) Advisory Committee 

Awards

• Pre-Trial Assessment Unit  - 2010 National Association of Counties (NACo) Achievement Award Criminal Justice and Public Safety
• Winning Fathers Program at Pre Release Center - 2010  National Association of Counties (NACo) Achievement Award Criminal Justice and Public Safety
• The Silver Spring Community Service Weekend Program - Detention Services - 2012  National Association of Counties (NACo) Achievement Award Criminal Justice and Public Safety

News Articles

• Harris' Heroes: Project Youth ArtReach brings art programs - and hope - to Md. juveniles in jail | ABC7 News Harris' Hero: Project Youth ArtReach  - Feature Story on Drumming Program  Wednesday 7/22/15 Evening News Channel 7 by Leon Harris
• Inside the maximum-security jail where inmates try to get jobs | Washington Post - June 4, 2015
• PREA Compliance, Montgomery County, Department of Correction and Rehabilitation Positive steps toward ending prison rape  | Washington Post Editorial - May 12, 2015

Press Releases

• U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos Visits Montgomery County Correctional Facility - April 26, 2017