The Kane County Jail and the Corrections Officials that proudly serve within are part of the largest section of tax-appropriated budget in Kane County. The new mission of the Corrections Division under Ron Hain will be to truly break our local criminal cycle.  

 The Sheriff's Office offers an 80-plus sworn personnel Public Safety Department to serve the people of Kane County with a warrants, civil, and criminal investigation divisions, evidence processing and holding, school resource officers and unincorporated area patrol. 

The Kane County Jail and the Corrections Officials that proudly serve within are part of the largest section of tax-appropriated budget in Kane County. The new mission of the Corrections Division under Ron Hain would be to break the criminal cycle in Kane County.

We're proud to announce that our Break-the-Cycle Skills to Jobs program is operating in full force and successfully connecting people with prior criminal records to career employment opportunities. This same program will become part of the Corrections Division under Ron's administration and will serve to dramatically reduce the incarceration rate and improve the lives of all citizens.

Diversion Programs with Ron Hain as Sheriff:

• Opioid Rehabilitation Through Employment
• Employed Arrestee Return Next-Day
• Break The Cycle Vocational Training and Placement
• Mental Health Support Immediate Diversion

• In-house controlled substance rehabilitation and release referral
  
• Reduction of incarceration rate through structured programs
  
• Work-ready programs
  
• Return of federal inmate contract
  
• Collaboration with local businesses for inmate post-release employment
  
• Municipality liaisons assigned to each town to enhance criminal intelligence networking
  
• Criminal Intelligence Team to gather drug, gang, and violent crime information
  
• Specialized training for designated officers to lead rehab and work programs
  
• Return of daily roll calls to increase networking and team building
  
• Emphasis on inmate classification to reduce violent behavior
• Crisis Intervention Training with continual refresher training  for all sworn employees

While studies show that 80-90% of our criminal culture is under the influence of a narcotic when committing a crime  (source: ADAM study), deferral rehabilitation programs for first time and non-violent offenders will be essential for truly breaking criminal cycles in our community. By re-implementing and supporting proven programs initiated by Ron in 2011 at the Sheriff's Office, a zero tolerance approach to major criminal activity will, once again, be the stance of the 

Sheriff's Office.  

• Implementation of reliable and integrated radio communication systems
  
• Transparent and collaborative spending of criminal asset forfeiture proceeds to support the Sheriff's Office budget and alleviate a portion of the tax-appropriated budget
  
• Integration of a Cultural Diversity Panel comprised of community members from all ethnic and special needs backgrounds.
• Enhanced training and corrections certification of Court Security personnel, with emphasis Crisis Intervention Training for all sworn employees
• Quarterly tactical training to reduce use of force incidents and better prepare first responders for those occurrences
  
• Initiating dynamic controlled substance abuse services
  
  • Creation of the "Heroin Hotline"
    
  • Coordination of the "Chicagoland Heroin Task Force"
    
• Patrol Division Reformatting
  
  • North/South Division
    
  • Return of daily shift roll calls
    
  • 10-hour shifts to increase coverage/network overlap
    
  • Integrating investigators with municipal police
    
  • Creation of Patrol Plus Division
    
    • Interstate Criminal Interdiction
      
    • Traffic/DUI Patrols
      
    • School Resource Officers
      
    • Warrant service
      
    • Civil service
      
    • K-9's