About Us

The home agency for the WIN Program is the
organization Working with People in Need [WWPIN],
a501(c)(3)

Working With People In Need (WWPIN) is a non profit agency serving 15 counties in East Tennessee. Services include helping the impoverished elderly, impoverished families, and convicted persons attempting to reintegrate constructively into society. In each case, HTN’s goal is to help people gain or regain the ability to live a good quality life by connecting them with needed services and specialty service organizations, and/or by providing supervision, treatment, educational and training programs.

WIN is the sister program for WWPIN’s Community
Corrections Program

Community Corrections, the sister program to WIN:

• Would-be incarcerated persons are diverted to a community setting
• Is designed to reduce the recidivism of its clients
• Is a cost effective program
• Combines strict legal supervision with treatment and services

Goal: to decrease the likelihood of re-offense while continuing to protect the community in a cost effective way.

The State of Tennessee created Community Corrections programs in 1985
to reduce prison overcrowding

• by providing community supervision and other services to those convicted of or who had plea bargained to non-violent felonies
• daily cost for offender averages $5 as opposed to an average of $50
  for those incarcerated.
• offenders pay fees for supervision and community corrections (Tennessee Board of Probation and Parole, n.d.).

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References

Tennessee Board of Probation and Parole. (n.d.). Community Corrections programs: Providing an alternative to incarceration for the Tennessee criminal justice and court system. Retrieved February 9, 2007, from http://www2.state.tn.us/bopp/ bopp_fs_comm_corr.htm

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