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Enhancing Reintegration: Community Corrections Strategies

This chapter delves into community corrections, focusing on preparing offenders for reintegration into society to prevent recidivism. Covering probation, intermediate sanctions and diverse programs like drug treatment and work initiatives in states like Missouri and Texas.

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Enhancing Reintegration: Community Corrections Strategies

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  1. Community Corrections Chapter 11 In Your Textbook John Massey Criminal Justice

  2. Community Corrections • Reintegration • Prepare offender for return back to the community • Prevent a return to a life of crime • Drug Treatment, Work Programs • Missouri, Texas • Diversion • Divert offenders from prison and jail • Net widening

  3. Community Corrections • Probation • Most common form of punishment in the U.S. • Community rather than imprisoned • Rules, Do’s and Don’ts • Incarceration and Probation • Split sentencing, combine the both • Jail and prison, then probation • Shock probation – go to jail or prison briefly, then probation automatically • Shock incarceration – sentences to jail/prison, after a while can ask to be released on probation

  4. Probation: Conditions & Violations • Probation violations • Technical errors • Jail or prison • Not eligible for probation • Conditions • Report regularly to PO • Notify change of address, updated information • Employment, cannot leave town, drug testing • Some offenders like prison better than probation • Probation Officer • Huge caseloads • Can’t focus on every offender • Goal is to guide offender successfully through sentence, check in on them and make sure they meet requirements

  5. Intermediate Sanctions • More restrictive than probation • Less restrictive than imprisonment • Aimed to ease overcrowding • Boot Camps • Military style correctional facility (6-8 week program in some cases) • Sounds good on paper • Day Reporting Centers • Offender attend and stay each day during sentence • Under supervision, aimed at rehabilitating, programs/treatment • ISP • Intensive Supervision Probation – more strict, frequent surveillance and control

  6. Intermediate Sanctions • Home Confinement • Serve their sentence at home • Electronic Monitoring • -electronic device, ankle bracelet, strap on arm, on chest • Halfway Houses • Placed in community but in a place less restrictive than prison or jail • Curfews

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