Heather Babbitt

WYOMING DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS

Mission Statement The Wyoming Department of Corrections contributes to public safety by exercising reasonable, safe, secure and humane management, while actively providing offenders opportunities to become law-abiding citizens. Vision To be the Benchmark Correctional Agency in the United States. The Wyoming Department of Corrections will provide a seamless correctional system aimed at improving community safety through employee training, recognition and retention, evidence-based crime prevention, risk/need assessment, and recidivism reduction strategies that focus on: * Workforce excellence; * Role modeling and reinforcing pro-social behavior; * Redirecting behavior that is not pro-social in nature; * Collaborative intervention to at-risk populations; * Thorough and on-going individual risk/needs assessments; * Risk-appropriate housing and community supervision/mentoring; * Individualized quality services to victims, offenders and inmates; and, * Successful collaborative re-integration back into society.