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The Casa Grande Concept
Casa Grande Overview
Why It Works
Financing Casa Grande
The Design Build Team
What Law Enforcement and Government Officials
Say About Casa Grande
Program Goals
How to Develop the Casa Grande Concept
in Your Jurisdiction
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Financing Casa Grande
Even the startup costs of the program came with the taxpayer in mind.
Jackie Crawford, the former Nevada Department of Corrections director
who had the vision and guided the project from its inception in 2001
through her retirement in the summer of 2005, said that most states
go to their legislatures to seek funds to refurbish established buildings
to build halfway houses.
"The unique part of Casa Grande was that we did not spend tax dollars,"
she said. "We asked for a lease-purchase structure. That's a public-private
partnership concept in which people invest. We take the money paid
for room and board and we make the payments. So the taxpayer is not
paying for that building; the inmates are. Isn't that the way government
should run?"
Additionally, Casa Grande is no free ride for the inmates. Through
innovative work-release programs, inmates at Casa Grande are eligible
for employment. Inmates reimburse the state approximately $15 per
day and all other monies earned are banked and upon release, inmates
not only have gainful employment, but a nest egg that helps get them
off to a fresh start. |
 
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