Assignment 2: LASA 1: Centervale State Penitentiary’s New Mutual Agreement Parole Program

The state of North Carolina has implemented the Mutual Agreement Parole Program (MAPP) since 1975 (North Carolina Department of Corrections, 2011). Because its 2011 report indicates that approximately 10% of the inmates who started the program were terminated from the program, the Centervale State Penitentiary has decided to review North Carolina’s MAPP model to determine how to ethically create its own model.

You are a consultant who has been hired by the Centervale State Penitentiary to research and build a workable model of a new MAPP-like program. Like all programs, the MAPP model is expected to have strengths and weaknesses. North Carolina has published not only its 2011 report but also its MAPP’s policies and procedures. The director and warden of Centervale Prison have asked you to review these documents and report on the following in an 8- to 10-page document.

Make sure your document is APA formatted and follows guidelines of the sixth edition of the APA, using credible scholarly, academic, and government resources.

Here’s What You Need to Do . . .

Compare North Carolina’s MAPP policy and procedures with the understanding that Wisconsin’s program fell apart because of some of the problems listed above.

As a consultant for the Centervale State Penitentiary, recommend how Centervale’s new model might address Wisconsin’s problems a, b, c, d, and e. Develop solutions to these problems and support your ideas with research on programming models that have proven to be successful.

The Gainsville state attorney general has argued that North Carolina’s MAPP eligibility requirement of being infraction free for ninety days is unreasonable because the inmate who was released and who reoffended after only seven days had forty-one infractions over more than fifteen years, including assaults on prison staff and attempted sexual assaults on other inmates, before being infraction free for ninety days and, therefore, qualifying for the MAPP.

The attorney general further argued that infraction free for ninety days or not, this inmate should have never qualified for the MAPP in North Carolina and that it was unethical to put citizens at risk by granting him parole.

The director of prisons tells you that the Gainsville attorney general has begun a movement for a new type of parole board in response to the director’s announcement that the MAPP might be coming to Centervale.

The Gainsville attorney general wants the citizens of Centervale represented on the MAPP parole board. Recommend how you might create a board of individuals that would take into account the ethical considerations of the inmates, the MAPP staff, the victims and families of the convicted inmate being considered for release, and the citizens of Centervale.

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References:

North Carolina Department of Corrections. (2011). Report on the status of the           mutual agreement parole program. Post Release Supervision and Parole           Commission, (Section 17.1, S.L. 2007-323).

State of Wisconsin. (1979). The mutual agreement program: A study of system           intervention in the Wisconsin division of correction (pp. 1–254). Madison,           WI: Department of Health and Social Services, Division of Corrections.           Retrieved from https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/Digitization/67951NCJRS.           pdf

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LASA 1 Grading Criteria and Rubric

All LASAs in this course will be graded using a rubric. This assignment is worth 200 points. Download the rubric and carefully read it to understand the expectations.

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