Hands On Inland Empire's Alternative Sentencing Program acts as the referral agency for adult and juvenile residents of San Bernardino County who are assigned community service work by the courts or probation departments.  The program provides referral, follow-up, monitoring and reports on individuals referred to complete community service hours.  Those referred to the program may be from Traffic Court, Adult Diversion Services, the Adult and Juvenile Probation Departments or directly from the criminal and civil courts with conditional sentences.  Referrals are made in lieu of fines or jail, as a condition of diversion or dismissal, or as an independent, sometimes mandated sentencing option.

Work assignments are made on the basis of the client's skills, availability and limitations.  Clients are referred to a community agency to do a wide variety of tasks.  All of these tasks enhance the ability of the agencies to provide services to the community.  The work assignment involves the offender with the community in a positive, constructive way that benefits both the offender and the community.

• Work assignments are available in all parts of the county.
• A program fee of $90 is charged for each referral, payable by money order only.
• A person sentenced in San Bernardino County, who lives outside of this county, should contact program staff for instructions on how to arrange to do the assigned work where he lives.
• A person who lives in San Bernardino County but was assigned community service work in some other county or state, should arrange a transfer to this program from the sentencing jurisdiction. For assistance, contact program staff at (909) 980-2857 ext. 207.

Get Started
Read the cover letter,  (Español) then download and complete the Client Agreement  (Español).   Mail the Client Agreement form, a copy of the Minute Order issued by the court and $90 money order to:

Inland Empire United Way
Alternative Sentencing Program
9624 Hermosa Avenue
Rancho Cucamonga, CA  91730

The program associate will contact you when it is received.

Program Accomplishments for 2007
During 2007, the Alternative Sentencing program processed 911 new referrals to the program, serving 863 adults and 48 juveniles. Of these referrals, 51 percent came from San Bernardino County Superior Court. The remaining 49 percent were referrals for San Bernardino County residents sentenced in other jurisdictions and transferred to us from other community service programs.

Alternative sentenced individuals in our programs, provided 100,278 hours of work to more than 415 sites throughout San Bernardino County.