PLUMMER COMMUNITY CORRECTION CENTER (PCCC)

38 Todds Lane 
Wilmington, DE 19802.3210
Voice - 302.577.2848
Fax - 302.577.2849

Steven Wesley, Warden

Elizabeth Neal, Deputy Warden

This is a 246-bed Level IV community-based facility. Opened in the fall of 1972, the Center undertook structural and/or operational changes in 1976, 1980, 1983, 1985, 1987 and was most recently expanded September 1991 to include the Crest program and Home Confinement Unit (HCU).

PCCC is a multi-faceted facility that currently manages and supervises male and female offenders who are participating in traditional work release (WR), Crest (a rigorous substance abuse treatment program) and the Intensive Community Supervision Program (ICSP). PCCC also employs a corps of offenders, at an established wage structure, as workers for the facility. These workers are placed in jobs that offer skills training, cultivate good work habits, utilize existing talent to benefit the DOC, foster social appropriateness and teach responsibility. They provide support to Department of Correction (DOC) staff in the areas of food service, maintenance, telephone operations, housekeeping/janitorial, grounds keeping and laundry service for residents. PCCC also operates community work projects that provide service to the local community, including clean up, snow removal, small repairs and other supervised work. Newly received work release offenders in orientation phase and weekenders are assigned to community service projects. A typical weekender is serving time for DUI or under Family Court commitment. They remain at PCCC from 6:00 p.m. Friday to 6:00 p.m. Sunday. This is done in an effort to teach offenders responsibility and provide a measure of reparation to the community.

CREST NORTH, located at PCCC is one of four (4) such programs in the State of Delaware. It is the second part of Delaware's internationally recognized three-step drug treatment continuum. KEY, operated at various Level V institutions/prisons throughout the State, provides the first phase of the program and aftercare is the third and final phase. Crest, a total treatment environment, is a program that functions as a therapeutic community (TC). It is a residential treatment program that integrates elements of the TC social learning approach with an advanced cognitive behavioral curriculum supported by Twelve-Step Fellowships. The three-phase program is designed for a six (6) to nine (9) month completion time. However, progression is not time-driven, but determined by individual performance, i.e., improvement and recovery. Therefore, actual participation time varies from five (5) to ten (10) months. Upon entry to Crest, there is one (1) week to three (3) weeks of evaluation and orientation, depending on the scope of prior treatment. This course of action assists the offender to become acclimated to life within the TC.

Definitively, the phases of treatment are:

• Phase I (Primary): The time spent in this phase will depend on the offender's point of entry, i.e., whether from a feeder program or a direct court commitment. The primary phase will range from two (2) weeks for the offender with prior treatment to two (2) months for those with no prior involvement. During this time, offenders are immersed in various aspects of therapy and counseling. Along with their counselors, they explore their weaknesses as they are provided with Civigenics foundation of core skills and principles of recovery. This helps to prepare them for appropriate responses to minimize the likelihood of substance abuse and/or criminal behavior relapse. During this period they are not usually permitted to leave the facility and only under staff escort.
• Phase II: During the next two (2) to three (3) months of the program, offenders concentrate on addressing reentry treatment issues. Focal points include criminal addictive thinking, anger management, job readiness, increased understanding of Twelve-Step support systems, enhancing relapse prevention skills and the development of healthy family, social and parenting relationship skills. This enhances their ability to apply newly learned pro-social skills for the next phase of treatment. During this period, participants are permitted to leave the facility under staff escort and, by special approved, transported by an immediate family member.
• Phase III (work release): Offenders are permitted to leave the center unescorted to participate in approved training and skills development programs, to obtain and maintain fulltime employment; to seek other services, such as community-based treatment, restoration of drivers' licenses and driving privileges, obtain medical care, social service benefits and/or to resolve any remaining legal issues, etc. This is an extension of residential treatment that allows offenders to continue participation in Crest while working in the community and striving towards becoming self-sufficient and independent. They must maintain employment, establish a saving account and maintain a minimum balance of $500 prior to completion of the program. After completion, the offender will transition into the Aftercare component while living in the community under probation supervision, thus completing the full continuum of care within Delaware's correctional system.

There are different ways for admission to the Crest-North program. Many offenders enter from Webb Correctional Facility (WCF) or upon successful completion of the KEY program at Howard R. Young Correctional Institution (HRYCI) or the Sussex Correctional Institution (SCI). They are either ordered by a court or classified by Department of Correction (DOC) officials to participate in the program.

WORK RELEASE is a structured program that allows gradual transition from prison life to full-time living in the community and diversion options for the courts. This program presents an opportunity and means for the reintegration of offenders through participation in work, education, court mandated and voluntary treatment, training and skills building and counseling programs, while the DOC maintains the safety of the public. PCCC offers several treatment programs and other activities on ground. They include Bible study, parenting classes, mental health groups, individual counseling, job readiness, Alcoholics Anonymous and Narcotics Anonymous. Online remedial education and computer training programs are under development. Residents also attend treatment and education programs in the community.

An offender enters the work release program by order of a court or is classified to participate by DOC officials. Offenders normally stay in work release less than one year, with the average stay of four to six months. Work release participants typically work for private employers. They must display pro-social behaviors such as honesty, responsibility and accountability. Random substance abuse testing is mandatory throughout their stay at PCCC. While employed full-time, offenders must pay a $25 a week room and board fee and $25 toward any court obligations that include costs, fines, child support and victim compensation. Persons working part-time pay $15 weekly in for the same obligations.

Through an established "Phase System" (Phase I - VI), offenders are permitted to spend time with an approved host, usually a family member and to attend worship service, take care of person shopping, etc. As they progress through the phases, they are granted increased freedom and responsibility. Routine and random curfew checks are conducted and occasional home visits. Approval for this privilege is subject to evaluation and recommendation by the facility Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT), with final approval by the warden or deputy warden. Other privileges that are not inherent in facility operations are also subject to the MDT process. The MDT is comprised of a DOC counselor, a work program coordinator and a member of security staff as voting members. A clinical supervisor or other designee from Crest serves as a non-voting member.

INTENSIVE COMMUNITY SUPERVISION PROGRAM (ICSP) is responsible for supervising offenders in the community while they are awaiting space at a Level IV program. This program also supervises offenders convicted for certain motor vehicle offenses such as DUI and traditional work release offenders who live at home. Offenders are required to check in with their probation officers at PCCC a minimum of three times a week. They must maintain the established curfew and submit to random urine screens throughout their supervision. Additionally, probation officers make random field/home visits as part of the stepped up supervision regimen.

WOMEN'S WORK RELEASE TREATMENT CENTER (WRRTC)

620 Baylor Boulevard
New Castle, Delaware 19720.1140
Voice - 302.777.6800
Fax - 302.777.6848

This is a 96-bed Level IV community-based facility, Eighty-eight (88) beds are dedicated to treatment, with the remaining eight (8) being occupied by facility workers. The WWRTC opened October 2005.

This is the first all female facility of its kind, opened and operated in the State of Delaware. It offers the Crest program to provide women comprehensive alcohol and drug treatment, with work release as a component. The center employs a corps of classified offenders, at an established wage structure, as workers for the facility. They provide support to DOC staff in the areas of food service, telephone operations, ground keeping, housekeeping/janitorial and laundry service for offenders.

The Crest program at WWRTC is called Crest-North for Women. The primary feeder for the facility is the Key program identified as "The Village," located at the Baylor Women's Correctional Institution (BWCI). However, the facility accepts female offenders, statewide, who meet eligibility requirements for the program. Crest North at PCCC serves as a template for this facility, but programs and procedures have been modified to ensure they are gender-specific. Where applicable, new procedures have been implemented to accommodate the needs of the female offender, location of the center and other relevant factors. The facility is dedicated to the successful re-entry of offenders into the community. It is operated in such a way as to achieve an equal balance of control and treatment for offenders that can positively impact their behavior and lifestyle patterns upon release.

When offenders reach Phase III of the Crest program, participation in work release replicates the phase system described above (under Crest North). As with Crest North, the work program coordinator, a DOC employee, is the primary person responsible for maintaining contact with existing employers and developing new ones, coordinating job readiness activities, conducting job site visits and generally ensuring the offender is afforded every opportunity to make a seamless transition to the community.

Offenders report to Crest North at PCCC for aftercare treatment in a co-ed environment.

PCCC Inmate Mail Address

Inmate Name
Plummer Community Corrections Center
38 Todds Lane
Wilmington, DE 19805

WWRTC Inmate Mail Address

Inmate Name
Women's Work Release Treatment Center
620 Baylor Boulevard
New Castle, DE 19720.1140