NON-INSTITUTIONAL CORRECTION - A branch of the Criminal Justice system concerned with the custody,

supervision and rehabilitation of criminal offenders. It came from the root word “correct” which means “to right a
wrong.

NON-INSTITUTIONAL CORRECTION - Take charge of correcting offender through community-based program such
as probation, suspended sentence for first time minor offenders, Parole and Conditional Pardon.

NON INSTITUTIONAL CORRECTION (COMMUNITY-BASED CORRECTION) - Refers to the community based

treatment where individual will be rehabilitated within the community. A system which allows convicted offenders to
stay in the community to serve their sentence subject to condition imposed law.

NON-INSTITUTIONAL CORRECTION - It refers to a community-based program, where a person is subjected to the

following privileges such as Probation, Parole and Executive Clemencies.

PURPOSE OF NON-INSTITUTIONAL CORRECTION

 to alleviate overcrowding in prison.

 one of the major goals of the government is to establish a more enlightened and humane correctional
systems that will promote the reformation of offenders and thereby reduce the incidence of recidivism;
 the confinement of all offenders prisons and other institutions with rehabilitation programs constitutes an
onerous drain on the financial resources of the country;
 There is a need to provide a less costly alternative to the imprisonment of offenders who are likely to
respond to individualized, community-based treatment programs.
 Make the offenders productive or taxpayers instead of tax eaters

GOALS OF COMMUNITY CORRECTION PROGRAMS - Community correction programs are integrated sanctioning
strategies that seek to achieve the following goals:

 The offender is punished and held accountable.

 Public safety is protected. Victims and local communities receive restitution from felons who work in their
present jobs and or in restitution programs.
 Community service work increases.
 Collection of court costs and fees increases due to contractual agreements with offenders who remain in
their present jobs.

What is the difference between institutional and non-institutional correction?

Non-institutional corrections refer to that method of correcting sentenced offenders without having to go to prison.
Institutional corrections are private organizations that are established by a government for the purpose of following,
and restoring any violations that happen with those who work for them.
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Not all convicted offenders have to serve their sentence behind bars. Some are allowed to stay in the community,
subject to conditions imposed by the government. They are either granted Probation, Parole, Conditional Pardon, or
Recognizance.

.Community-based approach to corrections as a way to decongest the prisons involves the Public Attorneys Office
and the National Prosecution Service effecting the immediate release of detainees either on bail or recognizance and
giving priority to the trial of detainees who cannot be released on bail or recognizance.

It involves the efficient performance of the Boards of Pardons and Parole in the granting of timely release of prisoners
and the effective supervision of released prisoners on parole or conditional pardon and those under probation by the
Probation and Parole Administration. Probation and Parole are two forms of non-institutional or community-based
corrections.

The fact that our government is facing a severe budgetary crisis does not augur well for the Criminal Justice System
most particularly the Corrections Pillar, which is the last destination of society’s convicted offenders.

With this cramped situation, our foreign lenders will also downgrade our credit rating which has the inverse effect of
increasing our interest rate payments. The devaluation of the peso will also lead to an increase in the price of
imported oil which will in turn force prices of local goods to increase.

Because of this, tax collections decrease, as what our government is experiencing now while foreign debt payments
increase, and prices of supplies and equipment increase.

Non-institutional corrections refer to the method of correcting sentenced offenders without having to go to prison. The
advantage of this is that it is less costly on the part of government, the offender's family need not suffer since the
offender will not be sent away from them and he will still be able to go on with his life and livelihood thereby enabling
him to support his family. The community will also be involved so that crime becomes less hard to control.

ADVANTAGES OF COMMUNITY-BASED CORRECTIONS ARE:

1. Family members need not be victims also for the imprisonment of a member because the convict can still continue
to support his family, not to be far away from his children;

2. Rehabilitation will be more effective as the convict will not be exposed to hardened criminals in prisons who will
only influence him to a life of crime;

3. Rehabilitation can be monitored by the community thus corrections can be made and be more effective;

4. Cost of incarceration will be eliminated which is extremely beneficial especially to a cash-strapped government. An
entire bureaucracy will be eliminated which includes the salaries, benefits and perks of the officers and staff, capital
outlays, operating costs, maintenance of the facilities, subsistence of inmates, and many others.
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CONFINEMENT CORRECTIONS
Perhaps the most prominent advantage of community corrections can also be its greatest disadvantage. As
previously mentioned, drug programs and boot camps might ease crowding by placing prison-bound offenders in a
program that allows them the chance to avoid incarceration, but such programs might also be filled with offenders
who actually should have received a less severe sentence. This is a situation known as net widening, and it happens
when judges and prosecutors fill the program spaces with offenders who do not necessarily require such a high level
of care or intervention rather than the ones the program was actually designed for. Not only are prison-bound
offenders not getting their chance to be placed in appropriate programs and have access to services, but the cost of
punishment actually increases. Officials often feel they must maximize program capacity. Another disadvantage is
that public safety may be compromised. Offenders are more easily able to continue criminal behavior than if they
were confined in jail or prison. With funding going to jails and prisons, resources have not kept pace with community
corrections growth. With resources spread so thinly, officers now supervise more offenders and are able to spend
less time on each person. Technology is slowly replacing human supervision. However, even when home
confinement is combined with electronic monitoring technology, authorities cannot be completely assured that
offenders will refrain from criminal activity. For example, being that home confinement programs allow offenders to
leave their residences for activities such as work and shopping, it is possible that crimes can be committed even
when offenders are legitimately away from home. Many community supervision programs are disconnected from the
various treatment services that exist to address the multitude of problems offenders face. This becomes a
disadvantage to an offender’s success when treatment attendance is lacking because of transportation problems and
inability to miss work. Programs like day reporting centers that comprehensively address drug abuse, job training,
employment, physical or sexual victimization, parenting education, and anger management all in one location tend to
have higher completion rates.