As a county executive, you seek to balance the importance of community safety with its associated costs and how these rising costs impact other critical public services. For counties fighting jail overcrowding and considering new jail construction, BI Incorporated offers a smart and flexible jail population management solution—a BI Day Reporting Center (DRC).

What is Day Reporting?

A DRC is a one-stop community center for supervision and treatment. Offenders must appear in person (report) at the DRC every day or several days a week, depending on the level of supervision required.

• Supervision services include alcohol and drug testing, electronic monitoring, and case management.
• Treatment services are evidence-based, cognitive-behavioral programs.
• DRCs have proven to reduce jail overcrowding, lower recidivism, and save taxpayer dollars.

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How can a Day Reporting Center reduce jail overcrowding?

DRCs deliver targeted and cost-effective supervision and treatment in a community-based setting. They provide a highly structured environment for offenders at risk for repeating their criminal behavior. DRCs reduce reliance on jail beds by addressing the short- and long-term causes of recidivism.

• Supervision helps control the immediate risk of criminal behavior by monitoring daily activity.
• Treatment helps reduce the long-term risk of criminal behavior by impacting criminal thinking, substance abuse, unemployment, etc.

DRCs give corrections officials (Judges, Probation Officers, and Sheriffs) an alternative to expensive jail beds by providing a highly structured and accountable program in the community.

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How can a Day Reporting Center save my county money?

Jails are expensive to build ($70,000 to $100,000 per bed) and costly to operate ($50 to $100 per bed per day). By diverting appropriate inmates from jail, a DRC program can reduce the pressure to build and operate new jail beds or rent non-County jail beds. In addition, DRCs do not provide:

• Housing
• Meals
• Medical care
• Security officers
• Transportation

Offenders are responsible for their own costs in these areas.

DRCs have proven to be safe and cost-effective additions to County corrections at about half the daily cost of incarceration, with no upfront capital expenditures by the County.

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