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GGD-84-30 1 (1983-12-02)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabnev0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 6O0lRA UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548 L GOVERNM04r DIVISION B-197221 DECEMBER 2. 1983 The Honorable Vic Fazio House of Representatives Dear Mr. Fazio: 122962 Subject: Security And Supervision Of Inmates In The Bureau Of Prisons Community Treatment Centers (GAO/GGD-84-30) As you know, the General Accounting Office is conducting a review of the effectiveness of the Bureau of Prisons Com- munity Treatment Center Program. The following is a summary of our findings relating to the security and supervision of inmates in community treatment centers, as requested by your office on June 10, 1983. Background The Bureau of Prisons Community Treatment Center Program is a community-based residential corrections program. The purpose of the centers is to ease the transition from confine- ment back to society by providing offenders with certain ser- vices in or near their home communities, including employment placement assistance, group and individual counseling, voca- tional and educational training, and drug and alcohol treat- ment. State and local governments and private organizations operate the community treatment centers under contract with the Bureau of Prisons and provide pre-release services for qualifying offenders during the last several months of their sentences. The centers also take offenders committed directly from the courts to serve short sentences and parolees and probationers who need some degree of supervision. Approx- imately 240 centers were in operation and about 7,000 inmates were referred for services in fiscal year 1982. Eighty-three percent of the centers' residents were transferred from institutions, 10 percent were parolees/probationers, and 7 percent were direct court commitments. The Bureau's policy for transferring inmates to community treatment centers sets forth the criteria used to recommend individual placement in a community treatment center and to determine when transfer to a center should be made. In sum- mary, each Bureau of Prisons corrections institution periodically reviews its inmates' records with regard to 0 1I3Ol (182694)

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