VANDERBURGH COUNTY, Ind. –Vanderburgh County Sheriff Noah Robinson met Wednesday with four individuals in custody at the Vanderburgh County Jail who completed the facility’s Moral Reconation Therapy (MRT) program, congratulating each graduate personally and hearing about their plans for release.
Moral Reconation Therapy is a structured, evidence-based cognitive behavioral program used in jails, prisons, drug courts, and community corrections across the country. Participants work through a series of steps in a workbook and present their work to peers and trained facilitators, who decide whether each step has been completed honestly and in full. Research on MRT in correctional settings has consistently linked program completion to lower rates of reoffending.
“MRT focuses on accountability, honest self-assessment, goal setting and repairing the harm participants have caused to their families and to the community,” said Becca Brass, a licensed clinical social worker at the jail…