NCJ Number
166115
Date Published
1994
Length
51 pages
Annotation
Narrative descriptions and program profiles are presented for community-based corrections programs in North Carolina.
Abstract
The programs involve pretrial services, deferred prosecution, the Treatment Alternatives to Street Crime (TASC), drug education schools, fines, unsupervised probation, community service, regular and intensive probation and parole, electronic house arrest, boot camps, residential facilities, and community penalties. Ten North Carolina counties have initiated pretrial services programs to expedite the pretrial release of certain low- risk offenders prior to trial. Deferred prosecution is a district attorney's decision to withhold criminal prosecution so the offender can make amends. The TASC program is an intervention program for certain drug-dependent offenders. The purpose of drug education schools is to intervene early in drug use patterns of first offenders charged with certain drug possession offenses. Electronic house arrest is a special condition of supervised probation or parole. The boot camp or IMPACT (Intensive Motivational Program of Alternative Correctional Treatment) program is a condition of a split sentence in which the offender must serve part of an active sentence (90 days) and then remain on supervised probation. Community penalties have been introduced to reduce prison overcrowding. Program profiles include demographic and criminal history data, as well as admission, release, and success data. Community corrections program data forms are provided. 1 table and 64 figures