Work Release In North Carolina

Author : Elmer Oettinger
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781528236751
Total Pages : 38 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (367 download)

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Download or read book Popular Government, Vol. 12 written by Elmer Oettinger and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-29 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Popular Government, Vol. 12: June 1966 A persistent question which confr'onts most work _re lease jurisdictions is whether _separate facilities should be provided for work release prisoners. While positions vary, most advocates of work release would not recommend traditional confinement as serving the purposes of the program. Initially, it was mandatory for prisoners with work release privileges in North Carolina to be quartered apart from prisoners serving regular sentences.23 How ever, the 1961 General Assembly amended g.s. 148 (c) so that the section no longer requires work release inmates to be housed separately from non-work release prisoners.24 The 1961 amendatory act provided that it was its purpose and intent to allow the State Prison Depart ment to determine the extent to which it is necessary and practicable to quarter prisoners with work release privileges apart from Other prisoners. 25 At present, not all the prison units in the State, which house and han dle work release inmates, separate work release from non work release prisoners.26 Although there have been no indications that this has worked to the detriment of either the work release inmates or the non-work release members of the prison population,27 the Prison Department is rap idly moving ahead to convert a number of prison units throughout the State into exclusively work release units. Another question which often is asked is whether work release should be limited to those inmates who are already employed at the time they are sentenced.28 It is argued that while such a policy may tend to include only the best risks, ease administration, and minimize costs it probably excludes those who have the most to gain from a well contrived and well implemented program.29 \while the work release program in North Carolina might favor men who happen to be employed 'at the time of sentencing, it certainly does not discount men who might receive Offers of employment after commitment to prison. The criteria used by the Department in placing prisoners in jobs is: 1) that the job be suitable for the in mate, and 2) that the inmate attempt to select a job in an area closest to his home.31 It is not unusual for an in mate ou work release to remain with his job after he is discharged from prison, unless he happens to be far from his home. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.