NCJ Number
152713
Date Published
1994
Length
64 pages
Annotation
Practical guidelines are offered for first-time offenders to facilitate the transition to prison life and answer questions that may arise following a guilty verdict or plea.
Abstract
The book contains valuable information not only for inmates, and their family and friends but also for probation officers, lawyers, social workers, clergy, prison officers and administrators, law and criminology students, inmate advocates, and the general public. The guidelines focus on preprison positioning and the need for the inmate to work with his or her probation officer. The probation officer is just as important as the judge, since the probation report says a great deal about the inmate and largely determines what happens to the inmate in prison. Other areas of importance in preprison positioning include sentencing, health needs, and prison selection. Guidelines to help the inmate while in prison concern what to bring, rules and regulations, and interaction with other inmates. The selection on rules and regulations addresses clothing, contraband, food, disciplinary procedures, education, illness, library services, mail, recreation, rehabilitation, counseling, religion, sanitation, sex, smoking, telephone calls, television, visitation, and work. Appendixes contain a glossary and list of Federal correctional institutions and camps.