An evaluation of home confinement as an alternative to imprisonment in the federal system. The authors examined selection procedures and criteria, types of monitoring, the role of probation officers, and other elements of home confinement programs. They reviewed the role of home confinement within traditional models of sentencing as well as the likely impact of the 1984 Sentencing Reform Act (which took effect after the report was written) on the availability of home confinement as a sentencing tool.
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Home Confinement: An Evolving Sanction in the Federal Criminal Justice System
January 1, 1987
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