NCJ Number
89705
Date Published
1981
Length
135 pages
Annotation
This evaluation of direct service and administrative support programs includes a review of the initial objectives for each program, its implementation, and effectiveness.
Abstract
The direct service programs were designed to enhance inmate skills and ensure inmate rights. Programs designed to enhance inmate skills included the PACE prerelease and postrelease program, the PACE women's division training program, and a mini-reading laboratory program. Programs to ensure inmate rights were the ombudsman programs, the internal security program, and the law library program. The administrative support programs included programs to enhance operating efficiency and to augment the Cook County Department of Corrections Administrative staff. Those designed to enhance operating efficiency included the inmate telephone project, the visitor's surveillance equipment project, the medical services project, the inmate security upgrade project, and the management update project. Programs to augment administrative staff were the management training and support program and the division of supportive services program. Evaluation reports on each of the programs include general contract information, a description of program goals and objections, a description of program implementation, the current status of the program, an assessment of program monitoring and data characteristics, program impact, and conclusions and recommendations for improvements in program management. Tabular data are included.