NCJ Number
183707
Date Published
March 2000
Length
55 pages
Annotation
This report describes a Delaware program to ensure that high-risk probationers remain in compliance with the conditions of their probation.
Abstract
Operation Safe Streets (OSS) is a collaborative effort by the Delaware State Police, the Wilmington and Dover Police Departments, the State Department of Correction and the Division of Youth Rehabilitative Services. It targets adult and juvenile probationers designated as high-risk to ensure that they remain in compliance with curfews and other conditions of their probation. They are subject to increased surveillance and unannounced home visits. The report includes data sources, total curfew checks, violation of probation arrests, administrative warrant arrests and collateral arrests (those arrests made by OSS teams that result in new criminal charges). During the period January 1 to December 31, 1999, the OSS teams made 5,868 adult curfew checks; in 3,808 cases (65 percent) the probationers were home. During the same period 1,653 curfew checks of juvenile probationers found a compliance rate of 92 percent. Eighty-two juveniles were detained for violating their probation and 31 juveniles were placed in a residential facility for violating probation conditions more than once. Tables, figures, appendixes