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Help Desk Home > Bernalillo County NM

Bernalillo County, NM, JDAI Model Site
Reducing the detention population by 44 percent. Bernalillo County achieved this outcome by methodically reorganizing its resources, budget and staff to focus on community-based treatment and innovative policies that cost taxpayers less money. Then the Bernalillo County Juvenile Detention Center reassigned staff to front-end services and closed secure units, saving the county hundreds of thousands of dollars. Bernalillo County has also seen a 27 percent decline in juvenile arrests for serious violent offenses. Adhering to JDAI concepts has also allowed the State of New Mexico's Children, Youth and Families Department to close its maximum-security facility in 2003. Some of the cost savings went into acquiring portable buildings outside the detention center’s razor-wire fence to house an alternative public school, a community-custody program, a day treatment program and a mental health clinic.

 

Bernalillo County, New Mexico
Doug E. Mitchell
JDAI Coordinator
Bernalillo County Juvenile Detention Center
5100 Second St. NW
Albuquerque NM, 87107
(505) 761-6600
demitchell@bernco.gov
Bernalillo County, New Mexico Juvenile Detention Center
JDAI Help Desk at the Pretrial Justice Institute, 927 15th Street, NW, 3rd Floor, Washington, DC 20005
Tel: 202-638-3080 x312 Fax: 202-347-0493 E-mail: jdaihelpdesk@pretrial.org