NCJ Number
129182
Date Published
1987
Length
21 pages
Annotation
This guide provides basic information to community-based agencies about establishing contact with local prisons for aftercare programs.
Abstract
Contact of community agencies with correctional facilities can prevent problems from developing when the prisoners are released. The agencies can provide basic information and knowledge to the prisoner regarding housing, benefits, employment, and child-related issues. Conversely, the contact will keep offenders in contact with the community to which they will be returning. Prisons need to open themselves up to the expertise available, and the community needs to view the prison population as part of the community. To assist in this effort, the booklet describes the prison system in England and Wales and covers administration, type of prisons, security categories, and individual establishments. Prison staff, people from the outside, prison regime, prisoners rights, and resettlement are also discussed. Also described are approaches that community agencies can use to make contact with the different prisons to negotiate the programs.