NCJ Number
186862
Journal
Federal Probation Volume: 64 Issue: 2 Dated: December 2000 Pages: 11-18
Editor(s)
Timothy P. Cadigan,
Ellen Wilson Fielding
Date Published
2000
Length
8 pages
Annotation
The Federal home confinement program has three components: (1) curfew that restricts program participants to their residences during specified hours; (2) home detention that requires participants to remain at home unless the court permits them to leave for employment, education, treatment, or other reasons; and (3) home incarceration.
Abstract
The program was evaluated using data collected on 17,659 participants between 1988 and 1995 and the first two quarters of 1996. Data were obtained with the Home Confinement Program Participant Tracking System and were recorded by probation and pretrial services officers. Variables used to review home confinement participant data were legal status, offense category, start and end dates to calculate the length of home confinement, and program outcome. Descriptive analysis of data indicated the Federal home confinement program was operated according to expectations in all types of Federal criminal supervision cases. The low percentage of new criminal conduct among program participants reflected well on the program's implementation by probation and pretrial services officers. Future program plans include fully implementing electronic data collection for the home confinement program at the national level to make it possible to analyze more variables, conduct comparison and follow-up studies, and monitor the performance of national home confinement policies and procedures. 10 references, 3 tables, and 5 figures