Community-Based Correctional Programs Can Do More to Help Offenders

摘要

Community-based correctional programs help offenders make the transition between institutional custody and release to the community, and they also function as alternatives to incarceration. However, the assistance community-based programs have provided to offenders to help them assume job, family, and other community responsibilities has been limited. More could be done if (1) the Bureau of Prisons improved the management of its community programs, (2) probation officers more effectively assisted offenders, and (3) Federal, State, and local agencies better coordinated their efforts.