NCJ Number
154113
Date Published
1994
Length
40 pages
Annotation
At a February 24, 1994, meeting sponsored by the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA), 40 correctional administrators, criminal justice researchers, military personnel, private sector service providers, and Federal officials met in Washington, D.C. to discuss correctional boot camps and related community reintegration programs.
Abstract
The discussion focused on three topics: (1) the outcomes that shock incarceration programs should be designed to achieve, (2) the best means to achieve the desired outcomes, and (3) BJA's recommended role in developing and implementing comprehensive boot camp programs. The group identified a wide range of individual and systemic outcomes that boot camps should be expected to achieve and endorsed the basic principle that interagency, intergovernmental, and public/private partnerships should be used to provide a continuous, integrated network of institutional and community-based services that will enhance the offender's ability to lead a law-abiding, productive life in the community. Participants strongly encouraged BJA to use a combination of planning and demonstration grants to support jurisdictions that experiment with different boot camp models that emphasize service delivery in both the institutional and community-based phases of the program. Appended agenda and summaries of individual sessions