Westside ATCOpened: July 1993Capacity: 190Level 8: Transitional-Security MaleAverage Daily Population: 187 Total Average Daily Population: 187Average Age: 31Average Annual Cost Per Inmate: $23,033.00
VISITATION
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Business Mail:121 North CampbellChicago, Il 60612Phone: (312) 633-3838 Inmate Mail: 121 North CampbellChicago, Il 60612
West Side Adult Transition Center (ATC) provides a wide-range of reintegration programs focusing on education, vocational training, life skills, substance abuse and employment. These programs are tools to assist residents in making a positive decision to change for themselves and their families.
West Side ATC continues to maintain effective linkage to community resources with which residents can continue upon parole, thereby maintaining a continuum of service.
As a Level 8 adult facility, the security initiative and programs are focused. The GED and Adult Basic Education classes are conducted in house and life skills classes enhanced by teaching staff from Roosevelt University. These classes are geared toward residents who have less than two years of their sentence remaining and have not been found guilty of a violent crime. As most have been convicted of a drug-related crime, the substance abuse program includes individual assessments and counseling as well as group sessions.
Security initiatives include shortening free-time curfew, intensifying spot checks and permitting no movement for major holidays, resulting in a 40 percent decrease in the number of residents who failed to return.
All residents returning from a leave are drug tested routinely and have shown a 69 percent decrease in positive results.
Highlights
Security measures have been upgraded to include designated phone lines with caller ID and to monitor equipment for resident telephones as well as an upgraded automated door control panel in the main control.
Public service participation included Clean Green Day, which involves the local neighborhood.
The concerted effort to maintain a positive attitude in the interaction of staff and residents is reflected in no inmate-on-staff assaults and only six resident grievances. This is also seen in the gainful employment of residents, which has increased maintenance payments to the General Revenue Fund by $30,000.
As West Side enters the next fiscal year, preparations are in motion to enhance the training, education and well-being of residents by expansion of the programs area to include a library and recreation center as well as an additional classroom. The format of the renovations and program structure is in conjunction with the continuum of services throughout the department.