NCJ Number
144110
Date Published
1991
Length
82 pages
Annotation
This Three-Year Strategic Plan for "judicial sanctions" in Connecticut (1991-1993) contains the plan's mission, strategic goals, 3-year targets, and implementation recommendations.
Abstract
"Judicial sanctions" are the array of programs and punishments operated under the aegis of the Judicial Branch designed to save prison beds and provide more meaningful sentences for convicted persons and appropriate services for pretrial defendants. The "mission" of the plan is to create and sustain a full range of nonincarceration options and program services when they are the best means to enhance supervision, effect punishment, offer deterrence, and ensure rehabilitation. One of the strategic goals is to establish two priority areas for judicial sanctions: expanded alternatives to incarceration for pretrial and convicted persons, as well as sanctions for arrestees and convicted offenders not incarcerated. Other strategic goals are to develop a long-term strategy to impose meaningful sentences for appropriate offenders; to maintain the highest standards of quality and equity in judicial sanctions; to develop an ongoing, maximum effort to invest all professionals in the criminal justice system to use judicial sanctions; to sustain a strategic communications program to build support for judicial sanctions; and to target family violence for priority focus. Three-year targets are to increase judicial sanctions options in lieu of incarceration by 4,000 by 1993 and to increase judicial sanctions for those currently nonincarcerated to 3,620 spaces by 1993. Implementation steps are proposed for each of the six strategic goals. Appended information on sanctions for family violence offenders, sanctions typology, focus group attendees, interviewees, and interview questions