Provide Innovative Solutions

We pride ourselves on developing new and innovative approaches to corrections. In addition to providing a safe, secure and humane environment within the correctional facility, we continually demonstrate our ability to reduce recidivism rates. Two examples of programs that specifically address recidivism are located in central Texas.


In Lockhart, Texas, we operate work program facilities for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice-Parole Division. As there is an inverse relationship between marketable job skills and the incidence of incarceration, we have recruited private industry to establish factories within the facilities, train offenders in appropriate skills, and pay them for their labor under the Prison Industry Enhancement Certification Program (PIECP). For more information on the PIECP Program, click here.

PIE Programs and service industries are also currently in operation at the Moore Haven and South Bay facilities in Florida and under development at the Rivers Correctional Institution in North Carolina, and the Guadalupe County and Lea County facilities in New Mexico. Government Industry Programs are in operation at Allen Correctional Center in Louisiana, Guadalupe County and Lea County Correctional facilities in New Mexico, and Lawton Correctional Facility in Oklahoma.

At Kyle, Texas, we operated a 520-bed Correctional Center for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice-Institutional Division. Recognizing that there is a link between chemical dependency and incarceration, we contracted with the Texas Department of Criminal Justice to implement one of the world's largest in-prison therapeutic community chemical dependency treatment programs which we operated for approximately 12 years.

GED and college level courses supplement substance abuse and vocational training programs that are offered at these facilities. Inmates receive life skills counseling and are exposed to a full-range of programs and activities that help them succeed in their re-entry into society. Although technically complex to develop and administer, these types of programs offer the best opportunity to impact recidivism.