Perf-Based Stds, Transportation of Inmates, 1st Ed_Jan 2025

Glossary

Admission – the process of entry into a program. During admission processing, the juvenile or adult offender receives an orientation to program goals, rules and regulations. Assignment to living quarters and to appropriate staff also is completed at this time. Adult Community Residential Service – also referred to as halfway house, a community–based program providing group residence (such as a house, work release center, prerelease center) for probationers, parolees, residents in incarcerated status and referrals through the courts or other agencies. Clients also may receive these services from the agency on a nonresidential basis. (See Out-client.) Adult Correctional Institution – a confinement facility, usually under state or federal auspices, that has custodial authority over adults sentenced to confinement for more than one year. Adult Detention Facility or Jail – a local confinement facility with temporary custodial authority. Adults can be confined pending adjudication for 48 hours or more and usually for sentences of up to two years. Affirmative Action – a concept designed to ensure equal opportunity for all persons regardless of race, religion, age, sex, or ethnic origin. These equal opportunities include all personnel programming, such as selection, promotion, retention, rate of pay, demotion, transfer, layoff and termination. Aftercare – control, supervision, and care exercised over juveniles and in some case adults released from facilities through a stated release program. (See Releasing authority.) Agency – the unit of a governing authority that has direct responsibility for the operations of a correc tions program, including the implementation of policy as set by the governing authority. For a community residential center, this would be the administrative headquarters of the facilities. A single community facility that is not a part of a formal consolidation of community facilities is considered to be an agency. In a public agency, this could be a probation department, welfare department, or similar agency. For a juvenile correctional organization, this would be the central office responsible for governing the juvenile correctional system for the jurisdiction. Agency Administrator – the administrative officer appointed by the governing authority or designee who is responsible for all operations of the agency, such as the department of corrections or parole, and all related programs under his or her control. Agency Industries Administrator – the individual who has functional responsibility for industries opera tions throughout the correctional system. Titles, such as head of industries, superintendent, chief, director, or general manager, may be used to denote this position. Alternative Meal Service – foods provided to comply with the medical, religious, or security require ments. Alternative meals must be designed to ensure basic health needs are met and are provided in strict compliance with the policies signed by the chief executive officer, the chief medical officer, and for the religious diets, by the appropriate religious leader. Annual Certification Statement – the document an accredited agency submits to ACA to verify contin ued compliance with the standards, report on its progress of implementing plans of action, and advise the ssociation of any significant events that may have occurred. It is due on the anniversary of the accreditation award.

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