Frequently Asked Questions

What is a residential reentry center (RRC)?
  • The BOP contracts with residential reentry centers (RRC’s), also known as halfway houses, to provide assistance to inmates who are nearing release.
  • RRCs provide a safe, structured, supervised environment, as well as employment counseling, job placement, financial management assistance, and other programs and services.
  • RRCs help inmates gradually rebuild their ties to the community and facilitate supervising ex-offenders’ activities during this readjustment phase.
  • RRC’s are not jails or prisons. Clients are monitored closely and must maintain pre-arranged and approved schedules, which include working outside the RRC and visiting family and loved ones.
Where do your clients come from?
  • The Bureau of Prisons and U.S. Courts refer all clients to the residential reentry center.
  • Clients are placed in an RRC that is the closest to their release address.
What services will Southern Missouri Reentry, LLC provide?
The primary objective of SMR, LLC is to properly prepare ex-offenders for their return to a free society where they can live as productive, law-abiding citizens.

Additional goals and objectives include:

  • Providing a comfortable, positive, safe, and structured environment for each client.
  • Providing employment, educational, and vocational placement assistance.
  • Providing an atmosphere which encourages and permits clients to improve family and social relationships.
  • Integrating services with community resources to meet the needs of the clients and the community.
How long do clients stay at the RRC?

The length of stay in the RRC program varies for each client and is determined by the referring authority (BOP or US Courts)

Do your clients pay to stay at the RRC?

There is no charge for participation in the RRC program.

Do your clients work in the community?
The RRC program encourages clients to become self-sufficient through gainful employment.
What happens with your clients when they leave the RRC?
When the BOP or US Courts releases a client from an RRC program, the majority of our clients go on supervised release and become part of the community they’re going to live in.
Types of clients at a Residential Reentry Center (RRC)
The residential reentry center must accept all female and male federal clients. All clients include any federally prosecuted offense, including sexually related offenses. All sex offenders and BOP identified “public safety factors” are placed on GPS monitoring upon arrival from the institution they are coming from.

The facility and staff closely monitor each offender with smart device technology 24/7 365. Our client monitoring system allows the ability of programmed inclusion and exclusion zones, for each client. In addition, it allows random accountability checks which are verified biometrically (face / voice / fingerprint) as well as the ability to do instant accountability checks.

An accountability check is a practice that keeps the offender on a specific and regimented schedule each day they’re in the program. Any deviation from locations allowed, based on the times on their schedule immediately notifies not only the program member, but the facility and administration, allowing the reentry center to take appropriate action when needed.

Where do federal clients come from, and why?
Clients are returned to their previous release address, or they are sent back to their sentencing district. A sentencing district is where they were charged and adjudicated. This means that this was a citizen of the community prior to their incarceration in a federal prison.
What is an RRC and what is the program beyond housing or home confinement accountability?
A residential reentry center (RRC) provides programs that help inmates rebuild their ties to the community and reduces the likelihood that they will recidivate. The three main programming focuses for a reentry center are around housing, employment, and each client’s treatments needs.

Treatment generally is focused around emotional, mental and substance abuse concerns. Upon the successful completion of the BOP sentence at the residential reentry center, clients will return to the community.

Safety and Accountability
  • The facility is staffed with a well-trained team, who are on the premises 24/7, 365.
  • Clients are accounted for using several different methods approved by the BOP.
  • The reentry center will have a state-of-the-art closed circuit camera system that observes and monitors all locations of the facility with few exceptions.
  • GPS Monitoring and Client Accountability Devices

 
Southern Missouri Reentry will implement state-of-the-art technology. Some key benefits of this technology:

  • 24/7 supervision and accountability to the client in and outside of facility or their home.
  • Biometric identification and accountability (Face / Voice / Fingerprint). Staff approved regimented schedule is input daily, and the client is held accountable to where and when based off schedule input.
  • Any deviation from the schedule alerts not only the client, but facility staff and administration as well. When schedule deviation takes place (inclusion and exclusion zones), the facility takes immediate action to resolve the matter.
  • Devices are tethered to each individual and there is instant notification to the facility and staff when separation occurs.

 
Staff is active in the field daily in following manner:

  • Home visits are initially and randomly performed by reentry staff on all home confinement clients.
  • Upon a client finding gainful employment, staff will make an initial visit and introduction with employer, as well random contacts, and visits to ensure accountability to employer and schedule.
  • When clients are using community providers for programming, staff will validate these visits regularly and randomly.
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