Right Living at Airway Heights Corrections Center

What is Right Living (RL)?

The Airway Heights Correction Center is transitioning to a model of offender management called Right Living. The Minimum Security complex is in the process of this transition with planning underway for the Main facility.

Right Living is a model of offender management best described as an adaptation of the Therapeutic Community that works for changing criminal and addictive life styles. RL uses “community as a method” to emphasize and hold community members accountable to pro-social values and behavior that better typifies how people interact within communities and the business world outside the prison gates.

RL uses numerous structured processes, concepts, activities, and rules that govern the day-to-day interactions between community members and between community members and staff. Respect for self and others is a major premise of the model that is emphasized for all interactions.

A Variety of Benefits

RL supports an increased level of safety and security by engaging community members in the structured process of holding each other accountable to the facility rules and RL community rules. Emphasis is placed on personal accountability and acting as a member of a community. This helps to maintain the overall safe and secure environment while seeking to eliminate the self-defeating and self-destructive behaviors inherent among the incarcerated men and woman.

The ultimate goal of the Right Living Model is to better prepare the community member (offender) for reentry into society while benefiting the staff and community members who work and live within the RL community, by creating a significantly safer, more secure, and respectful prison culture. 

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