Incarceration Program Evaluation

Supervised mandatory release is used in states where parole boards have been abolished or where the parole board has limited powers with certain violent crimes. The rate of mandatory releases now outpaces discretionary releases (Petersilia, 2001). Both

This service allows those offenders rejoining the community, access to rehabilitative programs such as counseling, job aids, medical services, and education to name a few.

The United States is the nation who incarcerates more offenders than any country in the world, this means that the cost of imprisonment, and healthcare for inmates is an expensive cost for taxpayers. The role of probation and parole was develop as a relief for taxpayers in order to reduce the cost of imprisonment. This supervision programs were develop in order to rehabilitate the offender, release into the community, and to prepare the offender to gain skills to obtain a job. Offenders spend a hard time trying to look for an employment, but the criminal justice system label affects the offender. There are many factors that affect the offender while trying to look for employment: criminal background, race, education, skills, and the social

One of the organizations in the U.S. combines many interventions suggested by the reviewed literature to help formerly incarcerated people transition back to society. The Fortune Society is a New York-based nonprofit organization which has helped thousands of formerly incarcerated people to rebuild their lives in their communities. The organization provides social and health services to previously incarcerated people since 1967. The mission of this organization is “to support successful reentry from incarceration and promote alternatives to incarceration, thus strengthening the fabric of our communities” (Fortune Society n.d.). The vision of the organization is “to foster a world where all who are incarcerated or formerly incarcerated will

O’Keefe, M. L., Klebe, K. J., & Hromas, C. S. (1998). Validation of the Level of Supervision. Inventory (LSI) for community-based offenders in Colorado. Technical report]. Colorado Springs, CO: Department of Corrections

DPSCS is a public safety agency with several divisions or units working together to accomplish common goal of protecting the public, its employees, detainees and offenders under it supervision whether through community supervision or incarceration for a period of time or for a life time (DPSCS, n. d). However, community supervision (DPP) is under the umbrella of DPSCS charged with the responsibility of supervising individuals released on parole, probation or placed on pre-trial in the community. In order for the offenders to be supervised effectively, once released to the community supervision, assessment is conducted to determine the level of supervision and be placed in the right level of supervision such as general supervision, or Violent

When it comes to corrections, it is clear what their mission is and that is to incarcerate criminals, however it also ensures that those incarcerated receive treatment to prepare them for reintegration and reentry into society. Ever since the creation of prisons, some wonder how we managed to survive without them in the past. Unfortunately, we do have neither the resources nor the capital to incarcerate all who chose to engage in criminal behavior. Utilizing other programs like probation are needed in order to accommodate those who wish to offend. According to McShane and Emeka (2011) there is currently over 5 million probationers and parolees in the United States and these programs represents almost 70% of all who are under criminal

Crimes, criminal behavior, and incarceration have been a part of society since man became “civilized”. While that may have been enough for the crimes of yesteryear, people like John Augustus realized that not every crime deserves incarceration, and he developed what has become the modern day probation and intermediate sanctions section of the correctional system. These programs were developed as a response to prison overcrowding and overburdened probation systems in our country. Where we used to focus on casework, now we focus on supervision, and technology allows us to monitor electronically, send prisoners away to boot camps, or even halfway houses in order to reduce prison overcrowding and recidivism at the same time. These programs have

Research (Lowenkamp et al., 2006) found that supervision providing treatment and not just control has significantly greater rates of success. In the year of 2008, (Public Law 110-199) the Second Chance Act was signed by President George W. Bush and passed by congress which endorse and boost programs that reduce recidivism and supply funding for exploration to improve the effectiveness of revocation decisions. Unfortunately, the “get tough” attitude has inserted its’ share to prison overcrowding with no recognizable amount of lessened recidivism.

The main concern of community service is safety and risk inmates may possess in society. The debating issue within this research is the justice letting their guards down on the safety of an inmate and the community. Not allowing potentially violent offenders to re enter into society and pose a problem or add to persons being unsafe within the

The article “ Using Police Officers to Enhance the Supervision of Juvenile Probationers: An Evaluation of the Anchorage CAN Program”, by Matthew Giblin seeks to explore and address the impact of the new probationary program on new technical probationary violations and new criminal charges. The author situates the article within deterrence literature, which suggests that increased supervision and police contacts will lead to a decrease in deviant and criminal behavior. The Coordinated Agency Network program (CAN), based in Alaska, was used to extend the probationary supervision by having Anchorage police officers make random visits to juvenile probationers. The author sets out two hypotheses to explore throughout the evaluation: (1) The CAN group will be more likely to

Due to the high cost of building and maintaining prison cells and to try to avoid extreme overcrowding of the prisons there are many correctional community programs for those inmates that do not pose a huge threat to society which can help save money to the corrections system and save space in jails for those inmates that do pose a high threat to society and that must be kept away until they rehabilitate (Peak, 2014, p. 263). One of the community based programs alternative to incarceration is the intensive supervision program or ISP, this programs is similar to regular parole or probation but the difference is that in ISP the contact between the parole officer and the parolee or probationer occurs more often and in most cases the contact is almost daily either face to face or over the phone, also in this program the parolee or

Essentially, community corrections ascribe to the sanctions that are usually imposed on both adults and juveniles convicted by the court of law to reduce frequencies of recidivism. Unlike other forms of sentencing, community corrections can be implemented in a community setting or any other residential setting, apart from the jails (Gendreau & Goggin, 1996). Within the past few decades, researchers have been struggling to advance community corrections through the use of effective intervention principles. In fact, these community corrections triggered the “what works” movement, a movement formalized in 1990. There are four general principles of effective intervention which the movement is currently based on: the risk

Historically, correctional facilities were viewed simply as places that housed offenders, managing their punishment (Schmalleger & Smykla, 2015). Nowadays, they serve an important role with crime victims (Schmalleger & Smykla, 2015). Some of the functions they provide are protection from intimidation, harassment, and notification of offender status, allow victim input regarding release decisions, and collecting restitution (Schmalleger & Smykla, 2015). Correctional communities have also realized the benefit of allowing crime victims to have a role in making policies and procedures as well as becoming members of committees and parole boards. This type of innovation has also led to crime victims serving as teachers in special classes geared

Community corrections is an alternative to incarceration. By moving the function of corrections back into the community, how can we, both as members of society and members of the criminal justice system, manage and reduce the risk to the community?