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Assignment 2: LASA 1: Centervale State Penitentiary’s New Mutual
Agreement Parole ProgramThe state of North Carolina has implemented the Mutual Agreement
Parole Program (MAPP) since 1975 (North Carolina Department of
Corrections, 2011). Because its 2011 report indicates that
approximately 10% of the inmates who started the program were
terminated from the program, the Centervale State Penitentiary has
decided to review North Carolina’s MAPP model to determine how to
ethically create its own model.You are a consultant who has been hired by the Centervale State
Penitentiary to research and build a workable model of a new
MAPP-like program. Like all programs, the MAPP model is expected to
have strengths and weaknesses. North Carolina has published not
only its 2011 report but also its MAPP’s policies and procedures.
The director and warden of Centervale Prison have asked you to
review these documents and report on the following in an 8- to
10-page document.Make sure your document is APA formatted and follows guidelines
of the sixth edition of the APA, using credible scholarly,
academic, and government resources.Here’s What You Need to Do . . .Research the purposes and goals of inmate reentry programs.
Define and discuss the purposes and goals of inmate reentry as they
relate to the ethical obligations prison administrators and
government officials have to society. North Carolina has been
criticized for allowing violent offenders to return to society only
to reoffend (see the digital resources). Some citizens of
Centervale are concerned about violent offenders who were once in
maximum security, sentenced to life in prison, but who are now in
medium or minimum security after completing or continuing extensive
inmate rehabilitation programming, being accepted into the MAPP and
eventually being released into Centervale. Recently, citizens have
raised their concerns to the warden and director of prisons because
a MAPP parole reoffended by committing a violent sexual assault on
an elderly female after one week of his release from prison.
Evaluate the criteria for eligibility for North Carolina’s MAPP.
Address citizen concerns and prison programming’s impact on society
if the Centervale State Penitentiary were to adopt a similar model.
Propose modifications to North Carolina’s MAPP eligibility criteria
toward ethical obligations to public safety. Be sure to provide
support for your proposed changes based on your research on other
reentry programs. In August 1979, the state of Wisconsin published
a report on the problems that ended its Department of Corrections
Mutual Agreement Parole Program. Some of the problems that the
Department of Health and Social Services identified were as follows
(State of Wisconsin, 1979, pp. 116–123): No clear expectations and
goals were set for inmates. There was lack of rational planning
structure by staff. The prison administration did not value or
train the MAPP staff efficiently or effectively. The MAPP had no
real links to outside inmate employment opportunities. No
postrelease follow-through took place. Compare North Carolina’s
MAPP policy and procedures with the understanding that Wisconsin’s
program fell apart because of some of the problems listed
above.As a consultant for the Centervale State Penitentiary, recommend
how Centervale’s new model might address Wisconsin’s problems a, b,
c, d, and e. Develop solutions to these problems and support your
ideas with research on programming models that have proven to be
successful.Analyze North Carolina’s policy and procedure for termination or
renegotiation for inmate MAPP contracts. What changes or
recommendations to this policy and procedure might you suggest for
Centervale? The director of prisons has come to you with concerns
that his office is being criticized for being soft on crime. He
claims that the Gainsville state attorney general has accused him
of unethical practice by making promises to parole inmates who are
considered dangerous to society through the new MAPP program
regardless of Gainsville state’s attorneys, judges, victims,
witnesses, and law enforcement officers who testified in their
trials by writing compelling letters protesting the inmates’
release. The Gainsville state attorney general has argued that
North Carolina’s MAPP eligibility requirement of being infraction
free for ninety days is unreasonable because the inmate who was
released and who reoffended after only seven days had forty-one
infractions over more than fifteen years, including assaults on
prison staff and attempted sexual assaults on other inmates, before
being infraction free for ninety days and, therefore, qualifying
for the MAPP.The attorney general further argued that infraction free for
ninety days or not, this inmate should have never qualified for the
MAPP in North Carolina and that it was unethical to put citizens at
risk by granting him parole.The director of prisons tells you that the Gainsville attorney
general has begun a movement for a new type of parole board in
response to the director’s announcement that the MAPP might be
coming to Centervale.The Gainsville attorney general wants the citizens of Centervale
represented on the MAPP parole board. Recommend how you might
create a board of individuals that would take into account the
ethical considerations of the inmates, the MAPP staff, the victims
and families of the convicted inmate being considered for release,
and the citizens of Centervale.Attachments:Report on the Status of the Mutual Agreement Parole Program
Mutual Agreement Parole Program: Policy and Procedures The Mutual
Agreement Program: A Study of System Intervention in the Wisconsin
Division of Corrections References:North Carolina Department of Corrections. (2011). Report on the
status of the mutual agreement parole program. Post Release
Supervision and Parole Commission, (Section 17.1, S.L.
2007-323).State of Wisconsin. (1979). The mutual agreement program: A
study of system intervention in the Wisconsin division of
correction (pp. 1–254). Madison, WI: Department of Health and
Social Services, Division of Corrections. Retrieved from .
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