Bay County Community Corrections
Community Corrections in Bay County helps to reduce the number of people sentenced to prison in Bay County while promoting public safety by using evidence-based programming and services within the community. Programs aim to address the behavior and needs of the individuals who are supervised both pre-trial and on probation to help reduce the long-term impact and cost of incarceration without jeopardizing public safety.
Current Programs:
- Pretrial Risk Assessments (PRAXIS): a research-based risk assessment that provides information at the time of arraignment that helps identify a defendant’s likelihood of appearing at all court hearings, risk of violating bond conditions, while helping to maintain public safety. Recommendations are made to the court based upon this assessment.
- Pretrial Supervision (PTS): is the supervision of defendants who meet the criteria as a condition of their release. Our goal is to uphold pretrial justice with a focus on court appearance and public safety. A defendant’s drug and/or alcohol screens, along with compliance with reporting and court appearance are monitored by pretrial staff. For further details regarding pretrial supervision, see below.
- 511 Substance Use Disorder (SUD)Assessments: is an assessment that is completed by a licensed clinician who develops a treatment plan or service recommendation to assist a pretrial defendant or sentenced felon be referred to appropriate programming to address their needs.
- Outpatient Treatment Services: Substance use for defendants who qualify based on their SUD assessment. Outpatient treatment consists of 12-15 classes held weekly. Groups are gender specific and held in the jail and community.
- Opiate Meth Specific Program (OMSP): a 150 day program held at TriCap that is tailored to each individual’s learning level, motivation level and are gender specific. All participants must be CRS (Community Residential Services) eligible and have a clinical diagnosis appropriate for the program. If they are not appropriate, they are referred to a 90-day program.
- Tether: Offender Pay GPS, SCRAM tether, and Soberlink are available to defendants required to alcohol test. A GPS tether will help promote victim and public safety.
Pretrial Services Program:
If ordered to participate in drug/alcohol testing and pretrial supervision, you must sign up in person at the Bay County Court House located at 1230 Washington Ave. Suite 619, Bay City, MI (Office is in with Circuit Court Probation)
Current Sign-Up Hours: Tuesday – Thursday, 1 pm – 3 pm or by appointment. Please bring your paperwork from court/arraignment with you.
Drug and alcohol testing takes place according to your assigned color or daily for those ordered to do so for alcohol testing.
Alcohol Testing: is at the Bay County Sheriff’s Department, 503 Third St, Bay City, Michigan (enter through the front doors). The cost is $8.00 per punch/test; punch cards need to be purchased at the Sheriff’s Department. Code – A – Phone number is 989-895-2096.
Drug Testing: is at Sacred Heart, 1106 Washington Ave. Bay City, MI. The cost is $15.00 per test, paid for at the time of testing. Code – A – Phone number is 989-894-2242, Option 2. If you test positive and challenge the test, it is $30 to have it sent to the lab.
If there are complications with the code-a-phone system, please continue to call until you get a clear message.
If you are under pretrial supervision, you are to report as instructed by phone or in person on your designated day and time to your assigned Pretrial Specialist. If you fail to report as instructed by phone or in person, a notice will be sent to your assigned Judge. To report for pretrial supervision by phone, call 989-895-4287, state your name, and if there are any changes to address phone or police contact that resulted in arrest or a ticket to appear in court.
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