Community Transition Program

Indiana: Community Transition Program

Indiana Department of Correction

In 1999, the Indiana state legislature enacted a law providing that state inmates can be transferred to a community corrections program or a program of supervision by a county probation office 60 to 180 days prior to their release date.

Program Established: 1999

Description

Indiana courts can assign individuals who have been convicted of a crime to the Community Transition Program (CTP), a community correc- tions program, or (in a county that does not have a community corrections program) a program of supervision by the probation department. To be eligible for the CTP, individuals must be serving a sentence of at least two years, have Indiana resi- dency status, and have no outstanding warrants and detainers.

Participants serve 60 to 180 days in the CTP, depending on the class of their crime, after which time they are discharged or released to parole or probation as ordered by the court. Sixty days prior to the date when an individual is eligible to begin the CTP, the Department of Correction sends notification to his or her sentencing court. The court then decides whether to allow the individual to enter the program or not.

Individuals accepted into the CTP are trans- ported by the Department of Correction to their sentencing county, where they are supervised by either the local community corrections program or by probation. Programming is up to the discre- tion of each county but may include work release, home detention, and day reporting. Some counties use assessment instruments, such as the LSI-R, to determine programming for individuals being transferred to CTPs. Several counties have formed transition teams to work with participants, parole, and probation. Each county receives 35 dollars per day for each participant during the first thirty days of programming, after which time the rate chang- es to 15 dollars per day.

Contact

Program Manager, Community Transition Program, Indiana Department of Correction
Phone: (317) 234-0194
402 West Washington Street, Room W341, Indianapolis, IN 46204
http://www.in.gov/indcorrection/