NCJ Number
197276
Journal
Corrections Today Volume: 64 Issue: 6 Dated: October 20021 Pages: 86-89
Editor(s)
Susan L. Clayton M.S.
Date Published
October 2002
Length
4 pages
Annotation
This article describes specialized unit management programs within the Manson Youth Institution in Connecticut, a high-security facility for youthful male offenders.
Abstract
In 1982, under the Connecticut Department of Correction, the Manson Youth Institution opened with a mission to emphasize a multidisciplinary program and an education-based environment. The facility operates under a unit management model with the ability to house inmates at levels 1 through 4. Offenders at Manson are both sentenced and unsentenced ranging from 14- to 21-years-old. This article describes and discusses the various programs offered within the various units at the Institution. The Security Risk Group Program, or gang management, provides a controlled environment for offenders to attend gang avoidance educational programs to offer a renouncement of their affiliation to their gang. The Chronic Disciplinary Program addresses habitual violators of facility rules and order. The RISE (Responsible Individuals Striving Everyday) Program is a therapeutic community program conducted in the Hotel Unit emphasizing addiction services programming with recovery. The India and Juliet units are general population units housing inmates approaching their release date and requiring the development of prerelease plans. Manson, a dichotomy of youth and criminality, offers offenders the development of skills, education, and responsibility.