The Work Release office is open Monday thru Friday, closed on
weekends and holidays; the hours are 7:00 AM to 3:00 PM. This work
program is a partnership with the Shasta County Probation Department
Community Service Unit and the Home Electronic Confinement (HEC)
program.
The Work Release Program allows qualified offenders, who have time
to serve, to live at home and report to the work facility or other work
site where they perform various public service work. In addition to
saving the citizens the cost of providing in-custody housing for these
offenders, fees are charged and collected from offenders that partially
offsets the cost of the program.
Work release allows families to stay together and jobs to be
continued so an offender´s financial obligations may be met. At the
same time, the offender repays our community by doing public service
work. Some of the services provided are road crews, cemetery cleanup
crews, and growing fruits and vegetables in the 7-acre garden at the
facility. The produce is utilized by the Main Jail, with surplus
donated to various nonprofit organizations for distribution to the
needy.