Intermediate Sanctions

Intermediate Sanctions

1. Women

   • Halfway House
     • A term used to refer to community-based facilities that use community supervision and intermediate sanctions to improve the likelihood of successful reintegration of returning offenders and promote community safety.
   • Community Service
     • A type of intermediate sanction that requires an offender to perform volunteer work. The purpose of it is to benefit the community.
   • Boot Camps
     • Boot camps, also referred to as shock or intensive incarceration programs, are short-term residential programs that resemble military boot-camp training and target convicted adults.

2. Juveniles

   • Residential Treatment Center
     • A long-term facility that focuses on providing some type of individually planned treatment program for youth in conjunction with residential care. It includes behavior modification programming, positive peer culture, and helping youth develop healthy coping mechanisms. These facilities are often considered medium security. The average stay is often six months to a year.
   • Fine
     • The juvenile may be required to pay a fine to the government or pay compensation to the victim.
   • Counseling
     • The juvenile may be required to attend counseling as a part of a disposition order.
   • Community Service
     • The juvenile may be ordered to work a certain number of hours in service to the local community.
   • Training Schools
     • A specialized type of facility that provides strict confinement for its residents. Includes training schools, reformatories, and juvenile correctional facilities.

3. Unisex

   • Intensive Supervision
     • A control-based approach. Closely monitors convicted criminals and require strict conditions upon release. It requires offenders to report more frequently to their supervision officers.
   • House Arrest
     • An intermediate sanction that confines an offender to his/ her residence. It is typically reserved for first-time or low-risk offenders. An offender can only leave their residence for approved reasons, such as for work, school, community service, medical appointments, or court hearings.
   • Day Reporting
     • An intermediate sanction that requires the offender to be supervised by a probation officer and assigned to a ''facility to which offenders are required to report on a daily or other regular basis at specified times for a specified length of time to participate in activities such as counseling, treatment, social training, or employement training.'' (The Day Reporting Center, n.d.)