Additionally, WSP performs the department s initial reception and assessment process for all male offenders within the adult correctional system. Construction is underway of a special needs, high security unit. This facility will house 400 inmates. The Conservation Camp is a minimum security forestry camp for males. Inmates assigned to forestry crews, under the direction of the Division of Forestry, fight wild land fires in Wyoming, South Dakota and Colorado.
Inmates also complete work on state lands and provide community service.
The Wyoming Boot Camp provides an alternative to long-term incarceration for youthful male offenders. A highly structured 120-day program running from 4 a.m. to 9 p.m., it includes 3 hours of physical activity. Youthful offenders are sentenced to the boot camp by a recommendation from the sentencing judge and cannot have previously been incarcerated in an adult penal institution. Due to recent construction at the facility, the conservation camp has increased design capacity from 74 to 174 offenders and the boot camp has increased design capacity from 30 to 56 offenders. The Wyoming Honor Farm is a minimum security facility with a mission that provides educational, vocational, treatment and a variety of agricultural work programs for adult male offenders.