Symposium on Governor Kean's Prison Overcrowding Plan, June 19, 1982, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs

• NCJ Number: 86828
• Author(s): Anonymous
• Date Published: 1982
• Length: 64 pages
• Sale Source: National Institute of Justice/; NCJRS Photocopy Services
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America
• Note: Sponsored by New Jersey Association on Correction and The Program for New Jersey Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School

Annotation

A symposium concerning the Governor's plan to address the critical problem of prison overcrowding in New Jersey focused on three areas: the plan's impact on counties, proposed alternatives to incarceration, and prison construction.

Abstract

The president of the New Jersey Association on Corrections opened the conference by describing its efforts to reintegrate offenders into society and develop alternatives to institutionalization through halfway houses, job training, and lobbying. An administrator from the courts spoke on the proposed legislation authorizing the Governor to continue the executive order allowing the Commissioner of Corrections to use any State or local facility to house State prisoners as long as the counties were reimbursed. A county administrator discussed the effects of these suggestions on the county jail population. Also addressed were proposed alternatives to incarceration, covering problems that intensive supervisory probation could cause for already overburdened probation services, alcohol treatment programs, and a residential drug treatment program for youthful offenders. Speakers explored the impact of mandatory minimum sentences or prison overcrowding, New Jersey's prison overcrowding crisis, the costs of constructing 5,200 new beds, and perceived inadequacies of the construction plans. Discussions with panel speakers are included.