James F. Graham
Learning is a life-long endeavor. I spent a significant part of my career in institutions of learning: as an administrator and chief financial officer in the country’s seventh largest school system; and as chief financial officer for a small, prestigious women’s college on Philadelphia’s Main Line. Then, in 1984, I helped to develop and became the chief operating officer for a successful, non-profit community correction company.

In 1994, wanting to elevate the community correction concept to another level, I developed Liberty Management Services.

What we have learned through the years has made us what we are today. We learned that we could do better than “good enough” specifically, all of our programs meet, and in most cases, exceed the requirements of the American Correctional Association (ACA). In addition to quality case work and counseling our Rainbow program provides food for the soul by making available spiritual and life-improvement programs to program residents, their families and the communities in which we’re located. We learned that the best way to offer meaningful and successful educational and work-training programs was to partner with the experts in those fields.

We’ve learned to think beyond the traditional role of a community corrections company, taking our expertise and applying it to the design and development of correctional facilities, relieving our clients of the burden of having to float bonds or raise taxes in order to build. We can also provide temporary prison modules.

Federal, state and local governments rely on Liberty Management Services to provide community corrections housing, day reporting, prison development, and drug, alcohol, and other behavior modification programs. They’ve learned that we are unmatched in our commitment to social service, pursuit of the highest standard and embrace of the spirit of innovation. It is a lesson we look forward to sharing with everyone who comes into contact with our organization.

The LMS Mission: To Re-Establish Society's Bonds

• To assist in establishing family, social and economic support systems to help residents become self-sufficient, law-abiding members of society, leading productive lives with the skills to find alternatives to the behaviors and addictions that have been at the root of their incarceration.
• To meet the needs of individual residents and enable them to make a smooth transition into society’s mainstream.
• To reduce recidivism and provide statistical data through inter-agency cooperation and communication, to the benefit of the criminal justice system, the community and the resident.
• To provide a secure, drug-free environment for our clients.

Liberty Management Systems, Inc. provides a full range of services to pre-release residents and parolees sent to us under our current contract.

Our residents re-enter society in a safe, humane, yet controlled and supervised environment, featuring:

• Counselors working with them on their job development skills, educational goals, and substance abuse issues, in addition to family and financial counseling.
• Alcohol, drug, and psychosocial counseling on-site by BDAP and CODAAP. licensed treatment.
• Enrollment in our in-house Job Readiness Training and Computer Literacy Training, conducted by the Jewish Educational Vocational Services and paid for by Liberty Management Services, Inc.
• An extensive referral network of employment placement and job retention programs.
• Basic education/GED links through the State Department of Education and the local community colleges.
• On-site follow-up from an ex-offender support group—peers who speak residents’ language and know first-hand the challenges they are facing.

At every stage of the resident’s re-entry to society, LMS is there to provide support services, while complying with all local, state, and federal requirements, standards, and regulations, and meeting budgetary constraints.

It can be a hard road for someone, after being incarcerated, towards re-entry to society and everyday life. A great deal depends upon the environment the individual enters upon release: will it be the same hazardous setting that got him into trouble to begin with?Or will it be a safe, secure, drug-free place that features everything the resident needs—both physical and spiritual—to establish a nurturing, positive support system and a productive future?

The LMS facility can help our residents get on the right path back, to become law-abiding, self sufficient, contributing members of the community. We make every effort to elevate and improve the resident’s entire re-entry experience, for his or her rapid, long-term assimilation into the community.

• Living accommodations that meet or exceed the American Correctional Association’s Standards for Adult Community Residential Services.
• Healthy, nutritious ADA meals that take into consideration special dietary or religious needs, preferences, or restrictions.
• Fully equipped exercise facilities open round the clock.
• On-site Narcotics Anonymous and Alcoholics Anonymous meetings.
• Direct access to places of worship, public libraries, medical services, and public transportation—all in close proximity.