NCJ Number
77956
Date Published
Unknown
Length
0 pages
Annotation
Shot in Seattle, Wash., this film shows various aspects of the Community Resources Development Institute's 5-day training program for parole agents and other correctional personnel.
Abstract
The many training methods combined in the film are discussed and evidenced through filmed accounts of daily occurrences. Since the ultimate aim of parole agents is to restore offenders to full participation in society, the agents must understand the conditions surrounding offenders released on parole. As the film demonstrates, the program is designed with this aim. Trainees (the parole agents and other correctional personnel in the program) listen to discussion of issues concerning minority groups, spend time in the homes of poor minority citizens, listen to lectures on sociological issues, and participate in role playing. In role playing, the trainees are sent out into the community with little money and meager resources, just as parolees are, to find a job and encounter the obstacles that parolees experience. In this way, the parole agents and other trainees begin to understand the difficulties of social reintegration. (Author abstract modified)