Reference no: EM133814211

Assignment:

You will play the role of an evaluator as part of the inspector general's office for a state or local municipal/county-level jurisdiction of your choice. You have been given the task of reviewing the offender rehabilitation programs offered by that jurisdiction and providing recommendations for improvements. Your recommendations will be based on best practices as they relate to recidivism and reentry.

Prompt

In this first milestone, you will identify a jurisdiction to review and evaluate and develop the introduction to your final program review. You will describe the rehabilitation programs currently offered in your chosen jurisdiction, including an overview of how each program works and specific examples of those programs. In addition, you will look at the recidivism rate in your chosen jurisdiction and explain what that rate suggests about how you might improve the rehabilitation programs provided. Be sure to use relevant sources, including your textbook, to help you complete this assignment. Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed:

Answer each question individually in paragraph summary

Introduction: In this section, you will provide an overview of the correctional institution rehabilitation programs available to offenders in the jurisdiction you selected.

Choose a jurisdiction first state level

1. Describe the correctional institution rehabilitation programs that are currently offered in the jurisdiction you selected, providing specific examples. Make sure to identify your selected jurisdiction.
2. Provide an overview of how each program in your jurisdiction works, including the general goal of the program.
3. Explain what the recidivism rate of your jurisdiction suggests about the need for correctional institution rehabilitation programs. Defend your reasoning.