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Reentry Policy
Interstate Compact for Adult Offender Supervision
Interstate Compact for Juvenile Offender Supervision
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Reentry Policy
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The original concept used the problem-solving courts model giving judges a supervisory role over offenders released from incarceration. The evolving concept involves the courts in community planning and coordination of services to address the needs of recently released prisoners from jails and prisons and the needs of their families.
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"Offender Reentry" has been funded as part of the COPS program. The funding is used for programs that build "partnerships among institutional corrections, community corrections, social services programs, community policing and community leaders...". The funding is for "law enforcement participation and coordination of offender reentry programs." Specifically excluded are job training and alcohol and drug abuse treatment services.
The Serious and Violent Offender Reentry Initiative is a collaboration among the Departments of Education, Health and Human Services, Housing and Urban Development, Justice, and Labor. The initiative is designed to help communities combine close supervision with services to help ex-offenders become law-abiding citizens, gain long-term employment, and maintain stable residence. The initiative targets communities with reentry efforts that involve public-private partnerships. Reentry efforts will involve close coordination among courts, corrections staff, law enforcement, probation/parole officers, workforce investment boards, and other community-based service providers. In FY 2001, grants were awarded to 68 communities. Information about these initiatives and its grantees can be found on the Reentry Web site at
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/reentry/.
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No formal position
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Corrections
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Interstate Compact for Adult Offender Supervision
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The new compact calls for the creation of an Interstate Commission comprised of fifty voting members, which will have broad rulemaking and enforcement power. In addition to the administrative procedures that will be required of those with responsibility for probation services, judicial sentencing decisions with interstate implications will have to comply with the compact's requirements and the rules promulgated by the Interstate Commission. Failure to do so risks subjecting a state to sanctions. In recognition of the significance of the courts' position, the judiciary has been given an explicit role in the development and administration of the new rules and procedures.
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The Interstate Compact for Adult Supervision is a major departure from other interstate compacts in that it contains a formal, national mechanism-the Interstate Commission--for developing, implementing and enforcing rules and regulations governing interstate movement of offenders on probation or parole. The Commission is charged with developing the rules, hiring staff, and providing broad direction for implementation. In effect, states have voluntarily given up their sovereignty in the major policy area to a confederation of state officials. In return, state officials are assured of an established procedure for identifying and supervising offenders who move into their jurisdiction.
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Interstate Compact for Adult Offender Supervision, NCSC Issue Brief, Vol. 3, No. 4, July 2002
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Corrections
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Interstate Compact for Juvenile Offender Supervision
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An interstate compact to govern the movement of juvenile offenders across state lines is currently being drafted. It will be modeled after the Interstate Compact for Adult Supervision with similar implications for courts.
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COSCA has had a representative participating in the drafting of this Compact.
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