NCJ Number
110730
Date Published
1988
Length
20 pages
Annotation
This report reviews the 1987 activities of the California Prison Representative Program, which involves a private, nonprofit organization's providing services for inmates and their families.
Abstract
A prison representative works inside the prison to resolve inmate family problems; arrange visits; provide employment and re-entry counseling; facilitate or provide legal referrals; and provide food, clothing, transportation, and lodging for inmate families on an emergency basis. In 1986 the program received expansion funds from the Department of Corrections and augmentation funds from the legislature. The funds were used to provide full-time prison representatives in four new prisons and to expand from half-time to full-time prison representative services in existing institutions during 1987. Currently, 12 institutions have full-time prison representatives. Significant trends in services include the replacement of visitor transportation/lodging/services with prerelease/parole/employment services as the most requested service. Child custody cases are up markedly, and cases involving institutional problems have increased from 1 to 3 percent from the previous year. In 1987, 93 percent of the requests for service were met (25,926 cases). Appended statistical data, sample monthly statistical case report.