Marshall County Community Corrections is very proud to announce the first two graduates of Community Corrections based Moral Reconation Therapy (MRT). David Everage and Cody Deery, both were sentenced by Judge Robert Bowen to Community Corrections for separate Felony Convictions.
A graduation ceremony was held in Marshall Superior Court 1 with Judge Bowen on July 7, 2016 celebrating their completion of this 22 week intensive curriculum aimed at reducing recidivism. Current program participates were in attendance to observe the graduation ceremony.
MRT is a cognitive-behavioral counseling program that combines education, group and individual counseling, and structured exercises designed to foster moral development in treatment-resistant clients. As long as clients’ judgments about right and wrong are made from low levels of moral reasoning, counseling them, training them in job skills, and even punishing them will have little long-lasting impact on their behavior. They must be confronted with the consequences of their behavior and the effect that it has had on their family, friends and community. Poor moral reasoning is common within at-risk populations.
MRT addresses beliefs and reasoning. It is a systematic, step-by-step group counseling treatment approach for treatment-resistant clients. The program is designed to alter how clients think and make judgments about what is right and wrong. The MRT system approaches the problem of treating resistant populations as a problem of low levels of moral reasoning.
Pictured left to right: Don Davis, MRT Facilitator, David Everage, Cody Deery, Judge Robert Bowen, Tami Napier, Chief Deputy Prosecutor.
