QUESTIONS CONCERNING ALTERNATIVE SENTENCING
1. Are home
incarceration participants allowed in their yards?
Each participant is monitored by an electronic field monitoring unit. The
individual cannot leave the confines of his/her house without the permission of
the Alternative Sentencing Staff.
2. Are home
incarceration participants drug tested?
Each participant, both work release and home incarceration, are screened for
drugs randomly.
3.Can home
incarceration participants come and go from their homes as they please?
The Alternative Sentencing Staff must approve each participant to leave their
residence. If approved for Work Release, a schedule will be set for the
participant to leave and enter his/her house each day.
4. Is there a
fee for Home incarceration and Work Release?
Home Incarceration participants must pay a one time $50.00 connection fee, plus
$10.00 per day along with a $9.00 per day equipment fee. Work Release
participants are required to pay $10.00 along with a $9.00 per day equipment
fee for each day in which they are released from the jail to go to work. The
fees are paid weekly and may result in removal from the program if they are not
paid on time.
Alternative
Sentencing staff can be reached during normal business hours 8-4:30 M-F @ (804)
693-5433.