Offenders are required to perform community service and to report daily activities and employment endeavors to a case manager. Analysts say day reporting centers can be among the most successful of intermediate sanctions because they can operate as multi-service centers offering a broad array of programs. Offenders may be confined to the center for up to two years. Home confinement requires a convicted person to remain at home for specified periods. Electronic monitoring may be used and probation officials must approve schedules outside the home.
Day fines levy a portion of an offender's daily wages.
The State should establish a competitive mechanism to fund community-based punishment plans. Competitive mechanisms, such as Challenge Grants, should be used to implement strategies known to reduce recidivism that were proposed by the 1994 Community-based Punishment Act. The State should expand drug courts. The state should fund those not adequately funded by federal money. Drug courts can serve as another mechanism for reducing the number of people sent to state prison and for breaking the recidivism cycle.