NCJ Number
106965
Date Published
1983
Length
27 pages
Annotation
This audit assesses the role of Utah's community corrections centers in helping inmates adjust to the community prior to release, relieving prison overcrowding, and rehabilitating offenders.
Abstract
The role community corrections centers (CCC's) are to fulfill in the Division of Corrections has not been clearly determined. The centers do little to rehabilitate offenders, but they can assist inmates in the transition from prison to community life. The centers also relieve prison overcrowding. In 1982 the CCC's served 527 inmates for an average of 3 1/3 months or about 10 percent of total inmate days. Services could be provided at a lower cost by using technicians rather than counselors for supervisory functions and by increasing CCC size. If the Division of Corrections decides to use the CCC's for rehabilitation efforts, more intensive and lengthy programs should be implemented on a limited basis to determine their effectiveness before comprehensive rehabilitation efforts are undertaken. (Author summary modified)