Assistant Superintendent Kevin Crowley
Western New England College - Masters in Criminal Justice Administration
The Hampden County Pre-Release Minimum Center is a residential facility which focuses on work, education and treatment programs for residents. Simultaneously, we promote resident accountability and public safety. The goal of the program is the successful reintegration of residents back into the community. We expect the residents, during their stay here, to address the criminal factors which brought them into the correctional center in the first place.
The Minimum/PreRelease program averages 195 inmates (173 male, 22 female) in its residential setting on any given day. About 850 inmates flow through our facility in a year.
Last year our Community Service Program amassed over 37,000 hours of work dedicated to helping out community projects such as Habitat for Humanity, Springfield Parks and many others. Since its inception this program has given over 500,000 hours of restitution work to assist the community.