Faculty

Kimberly Randolph

RN, BSN, MSCN, CCHP
Regional Reentry Coordinator
YesCare/Alabama Department of Corrections

Kim is a Registered Nurse with 26 years experience, 20 of those in correctional healthcare. She currently serves the Alabama Department of Corrections population as Regional Reentry Coordinator, providing resources to Alabama prisons to better prepare people to return to their communities. She is passionate about correctional healthcare and its role in the reentry journey.

2027 Sessions

Treatment of Justice Involved Populations: The Continuum of Care from Incarceration to Community

Session Description: The Alabama Department of Corrections (ADOC) currently houses 20,369 inmates (ADOC Annual Legislative Statistical Report 2024). The Alabama Bureau of Pardons and Paroles supervises 46,478(ABPP Annual Report 2024) justice involved individuals within the state of Alabama. Justice systems and Justice focused treatment providers face unique challenges in providing access to substance use treatment, the delivery of substance use treatment, the continuum of care, and the resources needed to support the recovery journey. This continuum provides an avenue for public health that results in public safety. A healthy community is a safe community. Substance Use Treatment, medically assisted treatment, and Medications for Opioid Use Disorder (MOUD) is vital to the health and wellbeing of incarcerated populations as well to the successful reentry of the justice involved population with identified substance use disorder. ADOC/ABPP has expanded resources to incorporate MOUD in the correctional and community supervision setting. The continuum of care from community supervision to incarceration and incarceration to community is key to the successful reintegration of our justice involved population. This replicable continuum model results in public safety throughout the communities we serve.

Presenter

Tuesday, March 30 1:15–2:30 PM
1.25 Credits
Public Safety
Faculty

Rebecca Bensema

APOST, MS Criminal Justice
Assistant Director of Reentry
Alabama Bureau of Pardons and Paroles

Officer Rebecca Bensema proudly serves the Bureau as Assistant Director for Reentry. In this role, she oversees all operations of Electronic Monitoring, Day Reporting Centers, Day Reporting Center Lite’s, the Residential Reentry Centers and other programs.
She began her career with this agency in September 2001 as a Probation and Parole Officer. She was promoted to Senior Probation and Parole Officer in December 2005. In September 2016, she was promoted to Probation and Parole Manager of Special Populations and Programs, followed by Director of Special Populations and Assistant Director of Reentry.

While working as a Senior Probation and Parole Officer, Bensema served as an instructor for a grant-funded project through Children’s Trust Fund of Alabama at the Dale County Resource Center from June 2013 until September 2016. She was an adult education instructor at Wallace Community College from February 2015 until September 2016.
Bensema is a member of the Reentry Commission, Chairman of the standing Law enforce Committee under the Governors Alabama OPIOID Overdose and Addiction Council and represents the Bureau on other committees that focus on support services for the justice involved population served by the Bureau.
Bensema graduated from Wallace Community College in 1998 with an Associate of Science Degree. In 1999, she graduated from Troy State University at Dothan with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Criminal Justice. Her education continued with post graduate studies at Troy University. In 2004, she graduated with her Master of Science Degree in Criminal Justice.

Faculty

Felicia Greer

Masters in Personnel Counseling; Licensed Bachelor Social Worker
Director of Mental Health Services
Alabama Department of Corrections

Felicia Greer currently serves as the Director of Mental Health Services for the Alabama Department of Corrections with the Office of Health Services. She oversees the management of the contracted mental health services provided to incarcerated individuals with a mental illness. Ms. Greer also manages the Substance Use Treatment services for outpatient and residential inmates. She is responsible for the administrative oversight that ensures mental health care is offered in a safe and therapeutic environment. Ms. Greer provides management of the ADOC Psychological Associates who provide services to individuals incarcerated within the facilities.
Prior to joining ADOC, she worked as a Medical Social Worker and Director of Social Services for a non-profit health care organization before becoming a Site Administrator at Julia Tutwiler Prison for Women. Ms. Greer has conducted facility train-the-trainer workshops, staff trainings, prepared for audit readiness, gender-responsive strategies and strategic planning among other areas.
Ms. Greer is a graduate of Troy State University, earning a Bachelor of Science in Social Work in August 1995. She holds a Master of Science in Personnel Counseling received in 2003 from Troy State University. Ms. Greers holds a license to practice social work in Alabama.
Ms. Greer’s professional interests include training and development, organizational leadership, and strategic planning.

Faculty

Kimberly Randolph

RN, BSN, MSCN, CCHP
Regional Reentry Coordinator
YesCare/Alabama Department of Corrections

Kim is a Registered Nurse with 26 years experience, 20 of those in correctional healthcare. She currently serves the Alabama Department of Corrections population as Regional Reentry Coordinator, providing resources to Alabama prisons to better prepare people to return to their communities. She is passionate about correctional healthcare and its role in the reentry journey.

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