From Fox 26 News.

Fresno, Calif. – April 24, 2025 –  GEO Reentry Services and the Fresno County Probation Department celebrated several people working to reform their lives.

Dozens of men and woman on probation graduated from the Reentry program at the Fresno County Day Reporting Center.

… The program offers an alternative to jail incarceration while holding individuals on probation accountable in a community corrections setting.

The Fresno County Probation Department funds the program as one of its evidence-based strategies in reducing criminal activity. Evidence-based practices refer to programs backed by scientific research to reduce recidivism.

Local community corrections officials, participants’ families and friends, partners who provide additional services for participants and program alumni attended the graduation ceremony.

Graduating participants also had the chance to share a few words about their experience.

“This program definitely had changed me for the better. I’ve taken a multitude of classes such as parenting, life skills ad problem solving, just to name a few. I must say the most rewarding part of the program had to be that it forced me to get clean and stop smoking weed.” said Anthony White, a graduate of the program.

White says the program has also helped him become a better communicator, a better parent, a better boyfriend, a better brother and a better son.

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