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Intensive motivational program of alternative correctional treatment (IMPACT)

IMPACT- Two phase program

Mission: to engage and rehabilitate the offenders with sentence of seven years

Goals: To engage the offenders into correction program for their betterment

To help the offenders to live a life with worth with out committing a crime.

Intensive motivational program of alternative correctional treatment (IMPACT) is a program that is based on the two phases, it is continuation shock incarcerations that initially started in the 1987. The mission of the program is to engage the offenders who are sentenced for 7 years into correctional program. Goals of the program is to engage the offender voluntarily in the two phase program and they can quite if they are not willing to continue the program. The offenders ahs to pass through the phases and complete the instructions of the drill instructors. The target population is based on the offender who do not mix in to normal general population. IMPACT is among the top three programs of the state to correct and rehabilitate the offenders (Mackenzie & Shaw, 2006).

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Intensive motivational program of alternative correctional treatment (IMPACT)

Population : Offenders with sentence of seven years

Effectiveness:

Increased the prosocial behavior in offenders

Decreased the aggression and anxiety

Improvements have been seen in the offenders that lead them towards rehabilitation.

The program is effective for the offenders by send in to the offenders into military boot camps. Offenders who were engage in the IMPACT program were reported as having the high prosocial behaviors anxiety and aggression have been lowered in the offenders who have completed the program. Offender with change are promoted to the next phase of rehabilitation (Mackenzie & Shaw, 2006). It was designed because authorities are aware of that emotional instability is a main reason behind the offenses. Thus this program helped to provide emotional stability and also help in rehabilitation process.

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Reentry Program

Reentry program is basically developed as a correctional program which is covering different aspects.

Educational paradigm

Health sector

Rehabilitation sector

Job skills and Employment Readiness program

Reentry programs is an effort made by the Louisiana corrections. The mission of the program is to provide the services regarding education, job and employment skills, substance abuse treatment and rehabilitation services are offered by the programs to education the offenders and help them rehabilitate in the society. Reentry program was designed to motivate those offenders who came again after relapse of drugs or crime. This program focus on all areas of life of offenders because it not only provided basic education but also provide job skills to make them productive member of society. Some profit and not for profit organizations help to design and to make it effective by financial, management and implementation help.

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Reentry Program

Effectiveness criteria: have impact on full society

Mission: provide best facilities of rehabilitation and to make offenders productive member of society

Goals: public safety, reduce recidivism, decrease victimization, and reduce the financial burden of the correctional system

To help the offenders to make productive member of community and able to play their role in community development

The population of incarcerated offenders are engaged in to programs and provide them vocational skills in which National Center for Construction Education and Research (NCCER) and the Automotive Service Excellence (ASE) are offered their services which help to make the offenders productive member of society.

The Department partners with the New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary (NOBTS) to offer offenders faith-based course work leading to an Associate or Bachelors Degree in Theology. Louisiana Community & Technical College System (LCTCS) also provided best vocational services in different areas of Louisiana for correctional programs. The Steve Hoyle Intensive Substance Abuse Treatment Program (housed at Bossier Parish Correctional Center) provided its services in rehabilitation area.

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Population : Offenders with sentence or without sentence from all age range of people

Effectiveness:

Increased the productive behaviors by providing them education

Control their emotional problems by making them emotionally stable

Improvements have been seen in the offenders through their employment rate, educational success

Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN)  offered its services to develop positive life style and values in offenders which helped them to make it more effective for community. The Department has three Faith and character-based dormitory (FCBD) programs, aimed at maximizing the power of personal faith, reinforcement of pro-social decision making, and positive role models through mentoring.

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Transitional Work Program

Effectiveness criteria: : have impact on sex offenders by controlling drugs usage

Mission: provide rehabilitation services to sex offenders and to provide them employment opportunity

Goals: to engage sex offenders in different employment programs and to provide them opportunity to live a normal life

To help the sex offenders to make productive member of community and able to play their role in community development

Transitional Work Program was also started in Louisiana state for the purpose of correction in society it was especially designed for sex offenders so implemented 4 to six months before release.  Offenders that are approved for the program are required to work at an approved job and when not working they must return to the structured environment of the assigned facility. 

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Population : Offenders with sentence above ten years of age

Effectiveness:

Improve the sexual thoughts and behaviors by controlling drugs

Provide them employment opportunities and rehabilitation services to control sexual offences

 Placement of an offender in a transitional work program is much more cost effective than traditional incarceration.  Offenders become taxpayers, not tax consumers and are able to pay victim restitution, child support, court costs and fines.  A long-range reentry objective involves increasing the TWP beds.

They become more productive member of society because of drugs control and they also become financially stable.

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Local Jail Literacy and Adult Basic Education Programs

Effectiveness criteria: : have impact on all offenders who are in jail

Mission: provide better educational opportunities to offenders to control the crime ratio

Goals: to engage offenders in educational programs and to provide them basic education which ultimately help to control crime rate in state

To make the offenders as educated member of society

It was designed in the fifteen jails of Louisiana state the basic purpose of this program is to provide the basic education to the adult offenders. It was necessary because adults are not only responsible for their acts but they also have to manage their family and according to psychologists adults, young children. Thus this program was designed especially for the offenders who are in jail either they are for minor offenses or major, on short punishment or for long time in jail. This program designed by government for all type of offenders.

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Population : adult offenders more than eighteen years and all type of offenders including drug addicts and sex offenders

Effectiveness:

Improve the life of offenders by providing them basic education

Provide them education will help to control offense rate and will improve the status of life in offenders

References

Louisiana Corrections. Reentry Programing. (2019). Retrieved from https://doc.louisiana.gov/reentry-programming

Human Rights Watch. (2019). Louisiana prison resources. Retrieved from https://www.hrw.org/news/2010/07/09/louisiana-prison-resources

Mackenzie, D. L., & Shaw, J. W. (2006). Inmate adjustment and change during shock incarceration: The impact of correctional boot camp programs. Justice Quarterly, 7(1), 125–150.doi:10.1080/07418829000090501