NCJ Number
77747
Date Published
Unknown
Length
635 pages
Annotation
This volume presents a comprehensive master plan for the Alaskan correctional system for the period 1979-2000 and provides timetables for implementing the plan's recommendations.
Abstract
The plan is designed to help resolve the dilemma posed by a growing offender population and limited resources. The plan is based on the following goals: incarceration of both presentence and postsentence offenders only as a last resort, the use of community corrections programs for the maximum possible number of offenders, and the focus of resources and support on community corrections programs. Additional goals include the renovation or replacement of existing corrections facilities to provide normalized, humane, and secure environments for all inmates; and provision of a broader spectrum of work, training, and social service opportunities. The plan describes the organization and management of corrections including recommended changes in the structure and scope of services and the regionalization of service delivery for all corrections services. Recommendations for expanded community corrections include the development of a trilevel client classification system, the use of paraprofessionals and volunteers, more appropriate training for community services staff, and expansion of pretrial assessment and supervision and prerelease and halfway house programs. Recommendations covering adult institutional services discuss such areas as guidelines for facility improvement; inmate population projections; program proposals including education, vocational training, library services, drug and alcoholism treatment, and leisure-time activities; and suggestions for developing a system of prison industries. Rural corrections recommendations cover such areas as alcohol abuse and jail contracts. In addition, a Technical Services unit is proposed to provide support for division management and to improve staff services. Additional recommendations discuss criminal justice decisionmaking, and cost-benefit considerations. Footnotes, graphs, charts, maps, and tabular data are given. An appendix contains related materials. (Author abstract modified)