Community Parenting Alternatives

Karen James with Washington State Community Corrections Officer Patty McGuiness and Mindy Brumitt and Glen Knight, participants in the Community Parenting Alternative program (CPA). Offenders in the CPA program are released from prison and placed on electronic home monitoring devices to enable them to live at home and care for their children while completing their sentence. Washington State has offered this alternative to incarceration and its counterpart, FOSA, the Family & Offender Sentencing Alternative, since legislation was passed in 2010.
FOSA: http://www.doc.wa.gov/community/fosa/eligibility.asp