Evaluation of Prince George's County, Maryland Day Reporting Program
Evaluation of Prince George's County, Maryland Day Reporting Program
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1996
Authors
Trader, Lois LaChance
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MacKenzie, Doris
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Abstract
Prefaced by an ever-increasing prison population,
departments of correction are turning toward
alternatives to incarceration for many non-violent,
low-risk offenders. The need for alternatives to
incarceration has spurred the development of community
based programs to house these offenders.
Electronic monitoring, intensive probation, shock
incarceration and community service are some of the
community based programs currently available. The late
1980s introduced a further community based treatment
program, day reporting. Based on a British model, day
reporting is an extension of intensive supervised
probation that incorporates counselling, rehabilitative
and treatment services with intensive supervision.
Since the inception of day reporting centers in
Massachusetts, 22 states in the U.S. have developed and
implemented 114 day reporting centers. While the
content of each program differs, the underlying concept
of public safety through intensive supervision and offender rehabilitation remains constant across all
programs.
In January, 1994, the Prince George's County,
Maryland Department of Corrections, Community
corrections Division, together with the State of
Maryland, Division of Probation and Parole opened a day
reporting program to facilitate community reintegration
of low-risk, non-violent offenders. This report
provides a descriptive analysis of the program's first
year of operation. The results indicate that while the
Prince George's County Day Reporting Program
implemented many of the initially proposed features,
further effort must be made to ensure that all
participants receive the necessary treatment and
rehabilitative services.