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operated by the Department of Human Resources' Alcoholic Re

habilitation Center in the District, and adjacent to the Depart

ment of Corrections facilities at Lorton. In the second chart, the first four institutions

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Receiving Home, Oak Hill Youth

Center, Cedar Knoll School, and Maple Glenn School

the last item, the Youth Group Homes, are operated by the Social Services Administration. The Alcoholic Rehabilitation program

operates a detoxification center and a narcotics rehabilitation center in the District, Glen Dale Hospital in Maryland, and the rehabilitation program in two facilities adjacent to the Lorton complex, in the former Workhouse, and in the former Women's Reformatory. The facilities of the Rehabilitation Center for Alcoholics (RCA) were included in the space analysis because it was obvious that one way to expand available space for those at Department of Corrections facilities was to exchange space with RCA.

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A short narrative explanation of the chart may be useful at this point. Beginning with the first page, and running down the left hand column of facilities, the situation is as follows for the juvenile and adult facilities:

1) D.C. Jail. The jail is budgeted for 950, has a rate capacity of 663, and a present population of 1,164, which represents overcrowding. There is the possibility of some

emergency augmentation, up to 120 additional spaces, by adding toilets. As the projections will indicate, the jail population is expected to remain relatively steady and is not a problem of the greatest urgency. /

2) Minimum Security Unit at Lorton. The unit is budgeted for 300, has a rated

capacity of 300, could be used intensively

for 450, and has a current population of 230. As the projections will indicate, this is not expected to increase by very much. It is not a problem of the greatest urgency.

3) Medium and Maximum Security Units at Lorton. These 1/2 units are budgeted for 1,400, have a present population of 1,460, and a rated capacity of 1,384. Intensive usage will allow 1,646 to be housed there. Approximately 180 spaces will be lost in fiscal 1972 by remodeling of space. Projections show a rise in the number of inmates in these facilities to 2,300 or 2,400 by the end of fiscal 1972. A major problem of great urgency exists here.

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4) Youth Center at Lorton.

Current population is 347, with

a budgeted capacity of 300 and rated capacity of 324.

Projections

indicate that there will be from 495 to 618 by the end of fiscal There is a major problem of great urgency here.

year 1972.

5) Women's Detention Center. The institution has a budgeted capacity of 50, has a rated capacity of 50, but has 86 inmates. Intensive usage does permit 90 to be housed there. There is augmentation planned for 32 additional spaces, and no great rise is expected in the numbers to be detained.

at present a problem of great urgency.

This is not

6) Community Treatment Centers. These are budgeted for 630 persons, and rapid progress is being made toward accomplishment of this goal through contracts for halfway houses in the District. In fiscal 1972, there is expected to be and needs to be a growth in this kind of facility.

7) Receiving Home. While it does not show on the chart, there are 352 children in detention as of the date of this report. Rated usage of the Receiving Home is 90, and by court decision of October 13, 1970, it may not exceed on any occasion a capacity of 108. The budgeted capacity is 136. The overflow is being held in the facilities at Laurel, disrupting the programs of education of greatest urgency, and cannot be solved by construction of a new Receiving Home in time to meet the immediate need, since the completion date on the Receiving Home is not until 1973. Excess population is being held in Youth Group Homes, and at Maple Glen.

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8) Oak Hill Youth Center, Cedar Knoll School, Maple Glen School

These facilities comprise the Children's Center at Laurel, have a total budgeted capacity in fiscal 1971 of 790, a present occupancy of 654, and a rated usage of 940. The rate of commitments to juvenile institutions is expected to rise, as indicated by the projections, but the main problem in conjunction with these facilities is that the detention population is rising very rapidly and is overflowing into these facilities, disrupting them. Further, the new Court Reform Act requires that there must be space for Persons in Need of Supervision (PINS) as of February 1, 1971. If Maple Glen and the youth group homes have to be used for detention, there will be no space for PINS. 9)

Alcoholic Rehabilitation Program. This program is budgeted, for the facilities adjacent to Lorton, for 715 and has a current population of 715, in institutions with a rated capacity of 500. This is a serious problem, but is not one which the task force was asked to address. Nevertheless, the task force did recommend

some exchange of space with the RCA facilities, not resulting in the loss of any capacity on the part of RCA. RCA officials were involved in the discussions and agreed to the recommendation. No effort was made to project population for any of these institutions, although it was noted by the task force that more space and greater capacity and therefore more resources are to handle the problem of alcoholic rehabilitation.

10) Youth Group Homes. These are halfway houses and shelter houses, along with one probation house. They have a budgeted