NCJ Number
190381
Date Published
November 2000
Length
40 pages
Annotation
This report provides a look at two community corrections programs, home confinement and drug treatment, offering accountability and monitoring of offenders living in the community and the tools necessary in building an effective community corrections program.
Abstract
A variety of community corrections programs have been developed due to technological advances offering an expanded dimension of monitoring and accountability of offenders in the community. This report focuses on two of these programs, home confinement, and drug treatment. Both home confinement and drug and alcohol treatment may be used as a condition of pretrial release, of probation or part of a program allowing for early release from jail. The report funded under the U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Assistance addressed specific questions with regards to each program assisting policymakers' decisions in determining the availability, quality, and uses of these programs. These questions ranged from what problems do these programs address and do the programs work to what is the cost to operate these programs? In closing, the linking of treatment programs with home confinement programs was discussed as criminal justice leaders determined that home confinement was used along with other programs and resources to increase sobriety and constructive behavior. Home confinement linked with treatment programs was seen as creating a powerful control and support for the offender living in the community. Appendix and available resources