NCJ Number
188519
Date Published
2000
Length
42 pages
Annotation
This report describes activities of the New Jersey Department of Corrections during fiscal year 1999.
Abstract
During 1999, all Department employees received training in the new Performance Assessment Review program, which would play a significant role in layoffs and a Pay-For-Performance Salary Program. Annual firearms requalification was added as an official specification requirement for all law enforcement titles in the Department. In addition, the Department: (1) initiated a new Correction Officer Trainee Program, which ensured that new recruits completed 14 weeks of law enforcement training; (2) under a contract with Amer-I-Can, Inc., provided 60 hours of inmate training in life-management skills, including problem solving and decision making, family relationships, financial stability, and employment search and retention; (3) improved and expanded academic and educational programs in Department and community-based facilities; (4) increased from 950 to 1,425 the number of participants in the Intensive Supervision/Surveillance (alternative sanction) Program; and (5) expanded from 300 to 700 the number of participants in the High Impact Diversion Program, which provides a high level of supervision for parole violators whose parole would otherwise have been revoked. Tables, figure