Passages to Recovery

"Crooked rude staff no respect all about money too long don't want to reward you with no certificates of completion"

"Everything about this whole place is TOXIC. Smh. They should be ashamed."

"Kept me out of jail, kept me & my children together & gave me a job. Much credit to Marsha Hinton & Charlotte Arnold when it was called Program for Female Offenders in 80's. You were the only light in that dark time. Much sincere appreciation."

"The monitors are this places saving grace. They already lost the good therapists. Upper management is a joke."

"ACTA, or the Program for Offenders, is an alternative housing program for the Allegheny County Jail. It is supposed to be a halfway house with a structure beneficial to recovery for alcoholics and addicts. It’s quite the opposite; a truly detrimental program that could only be described as a pit of despair. ACTA lacks any structure it may have ever had, if it did. The counselors don’t even meet with the so-called clients, so any actual treatment on an idividual basis is negleted. Without this individual therapy, forming a treatment plan obviously is impossible, so even if one wanted to work on themselves, they wouldn’t know where to begin. In the group “lectures” and group “therapy” forums the staff comes in with pamphlets taken from the big book or printed from the internet and presents them, sightunseen. It’s an embarrassment that tax payer dollars fund this abortion labeled a halfway house. Drug use runs rampant with the inmates constantly with staff knowledge, which breaks any semblance of an atmosphere of recovery. There are overdoses on drugs and even strange new drugs abused and passed around regularly. If one wanted to build a foundation for recovery or even just abstain from drug use they would be better off moving in with their drug dealer than taking a place in ACTA, because at least it would only be one individual offering the death sentence of continued drug use and not many of their peers. Here is fair warning that ACTA is truly a regression and not a solution to recovery from drugs and alcohol."