COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION AND SHORT TERM TREATMENT NEEDS CITIZEN COOPERATION

Abstract

Correctional treatment is essential at the county jail level. The paternal warden who did small favors for the man who performed menial tasks to earn a few cents a day and to get out of a cramped cell is at least an anachronism, if not a thing of the past. Treatment time is short in the county prison, and treatment is intensive. To do a good job we need help from our citizens and with the help of our citizens and the staffs of the various community agencies such as Family Services, the State Vocational Rehabilitation and others, we should be able to provide short term treatment in the county institutions.