Reorganizing Corrections: Revisiting the Recommendations of the National Advisory Commission

Authors

• N. E. Schafer

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Description

In 1973 the National Advisory Commission on Standards and Goals recommended that correctional services be consolidated under a single state agency, arguing that cost efficiencies, improved communication, and greater employee professionalism would result. The National Advisory Commission advocated state rather than local control of probation, and executive rather than judicial branch control of probation services. It encouraged development of regional rather than local jails and recommended that states assume the operation and control of all local detention and correctional functions. This paper examines some of the arguments for consolidation of correctional services and attempts to determine the kinds of reorganization that have occurred since 1973.

Publication Date

9-13-1993

Keywords

corrections, jails, juvenile corrections, parole, prisons, probation

Recommended Citation

Schafer, N. E., "Reorganizing Corrections: Revisiting the Recommendations of the National Advisory Commission" (1993). Conference papers. 10.
https://scholarworks.alaska.edu/uaa_justice_papers/10

Handle

http://hdl.handle.net/11122/8281