The Berks County Correctional Facility provides secure, safe and compassionate confinement of the temporarily incarcerated. We accomplish this by providing cost-efficient services focusing on rehabilitation, recidivism reduction and social restoration with an emphasis on education and self-improvement. Through evidence-based programming, those confined are more prepared to re-enter the community as law-abiding and productive citizens.
In the past 10 years, criminal justice trends across the country have changed greatly, and the County of Berks’ approach to justice and confinement has also been modernized.
The County of Berks Board of Commissioners recommend the evaluation of a new facility. Based on an assessment and forecast of the population, an understanding of current judicial system trends and a thorough study of the existing facility, it will be significantly more cost-effective to build a new facility rather than renovate the existing one. With more efficient, sustainable space for employees, visitors and the temporarily incarcerated, as well as flexible space for rehabilitation and education, those confined in the Berks County Correctional Facility will be better prepared to re-enter the community in a more productive manner.