NCJ Number
128227
Date Published
Unknown
Length
33 pages
Annotation
The procedures, guidelines, discipline therapy, case management, and program model for Mississippi's Department of Corrections' Regimented Inmate Discipline program are presented in this handbook for program staff members.
Abstract
Mississippi's Regimented Inmate Discipline program is a correctional model designed to be effective with non-violent first offenders, who possess the mental capacity and emotional stability to profit from para-military training and from psychological interventions. By design, RID participants are subjected to an initially intense, externally-mandated system of forced behavioral changes. Forcing behavior change is only temporarily effective. Therefore, the RID program rewards any exhibition of discipline by gradually lessening externally imposed controls on the inmate's behavior. The inmates gain greater freedom as they progress through the program as long as their behavior warrants that freedom. The recidivism rate is found to be lower for RID participants than for the inmate population at large. The history of the program is discussed along with the three basic philosophies of the program. The exact procedures of discipline and standards are presented in the format in which they should be presented to the inmates. The forms which the inmates must sign are also included. The basics of the program model as well as its three phases are discussed from the staff member's viewpoint. The appendixes include RID program flow, criminal mind class outline, thinking rationally class outline, criminal thought class outline, moral development class outline, and alcohol-drug class outline. 1 chart