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This report represents the completion of the work assigned

to the task force. It contains the space analysis, the population

projections, an analysis of alternative methods of meeting needs

identified and resolving problems posed, and a set of recommendations

for immediate action. Altogether, it provides a solid base of

information on which to make decisions.

Not included here, but to be submitted shortly as an appendix to this report, are cost estimates of the recommendations. Once these are available, choices can be made, budget decisions taken, appropriate funding sources identified, and requests made for

The projections will have an impact on many other institutions beyond the juvenile and adult correctional institutions. Specifically, the projections indicate that there will be an impact on the workload of the Board of Parole, the Narcotics Treatment Administration, and on the probation departments of both the new Superior Court and

the U.S. District Court.

The relationship of the projections and the decisions to follow from them is set forth in a set of charts in an appendix. The projections also should indicate to the Courts that there is a limit to what the District of Columbia government can do adequately, in the way of providing for facilities to house detained and sentenced adults, and detained and committed juveniles. It points up the

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very great need to examine the further use of imaginative, effective alternatives to incarceration, since otherwise there will have to

be either very great expenditure of funds for additional facilities, or dangerous overcrowding of existing facilities.

The recommendations for action, which are summarized briefly in a section following this Introduction, cover the remainder of fiscal year 1971 and all of fiscal year 1972. The summary is provided for convenience, while a detailed discussion of the process by which these recommendations were arrived at is contained in the body of the report. None of the recommendations provides the ultimate solution, but presents an approach to meeting the immediate needs foreseen for the next 12 to 18 months. The recommendations are designed to

meet these needs with as few additional resources as possible. Since it is essential that we know what success is being achieved in meeting the problems, and what additional measures are indicated as necessary, the actions recommended must be continuously evaluated. The task force would expect that evaluation of effectiveness would occur at

several check points in the future, beginning three months after Court Reform Act implementation, and continuing thereafter every three months. The Act, together with the many other new or altered factors at work, may not have the impact predicted, and if not, then it is essential that the District be able to make early adjustments in plans and budgets. Evaluation will permit this.

II. SUMMARY OF RECOMMENDATIONS

A summary of the recommendations with regard to space allocation is presented here for easy reference. The information base for these recommendations, together with the analysis of other alternatives is contained in the

body of the report. All three members of the task force agreed to these recommendations, as did officials of the Rehabilitation Center for Alcoholics,

whose facilities are involved in the recommendations.

Recommendation 1. Meeting the Need for Increased Youth Act Cases

1. a.

The former Women's Reformatory, now used by the Rehabilitation Center for Alcoholics, with a rated capacity of 300 persons and a present capacity of 275 persons, should be transferred to the Department of Corrections for use as a second Youth Center. Since the presently existing Youth Center has a rated capacity of 324 and since this transfer would add to that a capacity between 275 to 300, the total number of Youth Act cases which could be handled would be 600 to 625./Projections indicate a fiscal year 1972 population of between 495 and 618./

1. b.

The Rehabilitation Center for Alcoholics would be expanded to include not only the former Workhouse Division facility, now being used by the RCA, but also the minimum security unit at Lorton. This would give the RCA a continuing capacity of 740, 440 at the Workhouse and 300 at the minimum security unit, which would be adequate to house its current 715 alcoholics.

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1.c.

The minimum security inmates, approximately 230 at present, would

be relocated elsewhere at Lorton, in relocatable structures, although

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Corrections would retain the two two-story buildings east of the railroad
tracks until the minimum security unit is located elsewhere.
hall would be shared by minimum security inmates and RCA alcoholics.
The auditorium and gymnasium would be transferred to RCA.
Recommendation 2. Meeting the Need for Increased Adult Felony Cases

Relocatable structures for approximately 480 adult felons should be

built within the fence through 1972 at the Lorton complex, while at the

same time in the same period 300 more halfway house beds should be sought.

Projections show that there will probably be a need to house around 2,300 to 2,400

adult felons at Lorton by the end of fiscal 1972. Of that number, there is

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space available now for approximately 1,700,

By 1972, because of remodeling,

that will be reduced by 180 or to 1,520. To meet the need to house 2,300, there will have to be 780 additional spaces. If 300 of these are halfway house

beds, then 480 will have to be within Lorton.

Recommendation 3. Meeting the Need for Increased Juvenile Detention and
Committment Cases

3.a.

Restore full capacity to facilities at the Children's Center in Laurel by restoring full staff at all institutions, allowing for total capacity at Maple Glen of 240, Cedar Knoll of 552, and at Oak Hill of 150, for an overall total of 942, allowing for adequate total space for committed juveniles.

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3.b. Seek modification of the Court Reform Act to permit certain

commingling with an amendment to read that commingling shall be avoided

wherever feasible.

3.c. Acquire added Youth Homes, with already appropriated funds, to

bring the Youth Group Home capacity from 127 to 172.

3.d. If Maple Glen with its 240 capacity must be used for the new category of persons in need of supervision, given that it may not be possible to obtain modification of the "no commingling" provisions of the Court Reform Act, then Oak Hill and Cedar Knoll should be given added total capacity of 240 through the use of relocatable structures.

3.e.

Construct a new Receiving Home by spring, 1973 with a capacity

of approximately 200, based on the assumption that once the current large backlog of juvenile cases has been disposed of, the heavy influx of detained juveniles will abate from its present 350 to about 200.