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Adult Services
Cornell provides secure and community-based corrections services for adults. Comprehensive behavioral health services are fully integrated into programming offerings at Cornell’s adult secure facilities and community-based corrections centers.
Our adult secure division provides maximum, medium, minimum and low-security incarceration services to government agencies.
This division, which began in 1984, ensures public, employee and inmate safety and security by operating all facilities according to federal and state guidelines. Furthermore, we have earned accreditation for most of our facilities through the American Correctional Association, which establishes the high standards for safe, secure and efficient corrections operations.
We provide inmates with a variety of programming and services designed to assist them in returning to their communities as responsible, productive adults.
Since 1977 Cornell’s community-based corrections service line has offered government agencies an alternative to incarceration for adult men and women. The comprehensive services help the offenders and residents successfully transition back into their home communities with marketable skills.
Adult Secure Services
Cornell’s adult secure facilities have various levels of security. The safety and security of the public, staff and inmates is paramount. We maintain those through use of innovative correctional technology, electronic controls, surveillance equipment and thorough staff training.
Not only do we operate secure facilities, we can develop, design and construct adult secure facilities. We can also provide corrections systems auditing and consulting.
The array of academic, vocational and counseling services provided to the inmates afford them opportunities to acquire the skills needed to live a productive life after they are released from incarceration. The services include:
- Various academic and remedial courses, computer labs and library services.
- Vocational training in various fields, including horticulture, culinary arts, small engine repair and carpentry.
- Employment training and assistance
- Prison Industry Enterprise (PIE) programs
- Comprehensive healthcare.
- Individual and group counseling, including substance abuse/addiction and relapse prevention counseling.
- Moral Reconation Therapy (MRT): a type of cognitive-behavioral treatment that improves offenders' reasoning and decision-making.
- Therapeutic Communities (TC): Within each Cornell site, clients are required to actively participate in their recovery and utilize every aspect of their daily lives to therapeutically support recovery.
- Life skills training for living in the community, including personal finance, housing and parenting.
- Religious services through volunteer clergy from the community.
- Recreational activities.
 
Community-based Corrections Services
Our community-based corrections services provide government agencies an alternative to incarceration and offer an environment that helps offenders and residents transition back into their home communities.
The facilities are classified as minimum security and are staff secure. Additionally, Cornell’s community-based corrections services include home confinement and electronic monitoring.
Our programming offers offenders and residents to gain the necessary skills to live productively and responsibly. The programming and services include:
- Employment training and assistance.
- Academic coursework including GED preparation, computer technology, college-level courses and access to libraries.
- Vocational training in the various fields.
- Life skills training for living in the community, including personal finance, housing and parenting.
- Gender-specific substance abuse programs designed for the special needs of females, including pregnant women.
- Individual and group counseling, including substance abuse/addiction and relapse prevention counseling.
- HIV/AIDS prevention, counseling and testing.
- Moral Reconation Therapy (MRT): cognitive-behavioral treatment that improves offenders' reasoning and decision-making.
- Therapeutic Communities (TC): Within each Cornell site, clients are required to actively participate in their recovery and utilize every aspect of their daily lives to therapeutically support recovery.
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