The Alternative Community Corrections Program (ACCP) is designed to divert non-felony offenders from incarceration.  These offenders are sentenced out of the Criminal Courts of the First Judicial District.  The ACCP supervises each client through a regimen of intensive supervision and rehabilitation services.

ACCP is consistantly successful at helping non-violent felony offenders learn ways to become a productive member of society.  The Moral Reconation Therapy (MRT) program teaches the clients a framework of moral descision making skills.  The MRT Relapse Prevention Program teaches the warning signs of drug and alcohol relapse and teaches tools to combat these issues.  There are also support groups and mentor programs where open-ended discussions arise on how to remain drug and alcohol free.  The recidivism rate shows a 90% success rate for the ACCP.

Community service work is also required from each offender.  Community service is only one of a variety of alternative sentencing techniques designed to be more effective at reforming perpetrators, to reduce recidivism and to benefit society. In 2010, there were 12,642 community service hours preformed by clients of ACCP.  This equals $91,655 in wages (at $7.25 per hour) that nonprofit agencies in our area have saved.  These community service hours were preformed in many nonprofit agenices including:  the Apple Festival in Unicoi County, Historical Jonesborough Days, Toys for Tots and Tipton-Haynes Historical Site.