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Electronic Home Detention Preliminary Evaluation

NCJ Number
121917
Author(s)
J B Hall
Date Published
Unknown
Length
46 pages
Annotation
The King County Electronic Home Detention (EHD) Program is evaluated to provide information on the background, implementation, and daily administration of the program and to assess its performance as a viable alternative to incarceration.
Abstract
The Department of Adult Detention's EHD Program is designed as an adjunct to the Work Education Release Program in Washington State. Participant screening and the overall operation of the EHD Program is run by the Department of Adult Detention. The first program participant began in August, 1988 with the average daily population at 7.85. Of the 31 people who began in 1988, 24 have been released from the program. Twenty successfully completed their sentence on electronic home detention, two were returned to Work Release for program violations, one decided to remove himself from the program, and one participant absconded. EHD was slightly more cost-effective to operate than Work Release in the correctional facility. This report recommends that the 1989 evaluation continue to monitor equipment performance, assess screening of participants, and study the impacts of the EHD program on participants and on the King County Correctional Facility.