Shock Incarceration Facilities

Shock incarceration facilities are boot camp prisons made for young adults. They provide incarceration that is shorter than jail time for youthful offenders. The regimen at shock incarceration facilities are strict, military-style discipline, unquestioning obedience to orders and highly structured days filled with drills and hard work. Shock incarceration facilities are designed to provide a total learning environment that promotes involvement, self-direction and individual responsibility.

The key parts of shock incarceration facilities are substance abuse education. This substance abuse education is in the daily regimen of drill, ceremony, physical training, work, and academic education. Shock incarceration facilities are where young adults go to get a therapeutic environment. These young adults that attend shock incarceration facilities are non-violent offenders that need substance abuse treatment. To qualify for a shock incarceration facility, offenders must be under the age of 35 and be eligible for parole within 3 years of them entering into Department of Correctional Services. They also must not have committed a violent or sexual offense nor can they be sentenced to an indeterminate amount of time in jail or prison. Shock incarceration facilities provide academic education and other tools in order to help each young person to promote their reintegration into the community.

Every part of shock incarceration facilities, boot camp, is made to with the goal of developing law-abiding citizens. Shock incarceration facilities usually include phases of treatment. Most shock incarceration facilities have two phases.

Phase 1 includes an intense incarceration program that is operated by the Department of Correctional Services.  Phase 1 of shock incarceration facilities is built around a therapeutic program that is known as “Network”. Network seeks to create a positive environment to support the success of each young adult being reintegrated into the community. Inmates of the shock incarceration facility engage in activities normally associated with boot camps.

Phase 2 is an intensive community supervision which is conducted by the Division of Parole. During phase 2 of a shock incarceration facility, the graduates are intensively supervised in the community. The graduates will then go on to a program which can help them with housing, drug and alcohol treatment relapse prevention, family counseling and more.

Shock incarceration facilities have a good success rate but there are many factors that can lead to a young adult going home and ending up back in jail. It has been found that those inmates who attended a shock incarceration facility had a higher chance of ending back up in jail if they had family members with serious criminal backgrounds or substance abuse problems. Also those who were unwilling to adhere to the rules of the shock incarceration facility tended to end up right back in jail or prison.

Those who followed the rules and completed the program had a much higher chance of never returning back to prison or jail. In fact the help with education, job placement and more that shock incarceration facilities provide in phase two really helped some inmates get off on the right foot.

For some people shock incarceration facilities are exactly what they need, for others it may just be a super tough punishment that will not change anything. Either way it’s good to have options when trying to help those who have been criminally charged with any kind of drug offenses. Shock incarceration facilities are one of those options.

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