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Timestamp: 2017-09-21 06:45:30
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Matched Legal Cases: ['§2502', '§2503', '§2506', '§3301', '§3701', '§3702', '§7508', '§3901']

Department of Corrections > General Information > Quehanna Boot Camp
A person sentenced to a term of confinement under the jurisdiction of the Department of Corrections who is serving a term of confinement, the minimum (or Recidivism Risk Reduction Incentive [RRRI] minimum where applicable) if which is not more than (1) two years and the maximum of which is five years or less or (b) an inmate who is serving a term of confinement the minimum (or RRRI minimum where applicable) of which is not more than three years where that inmate is within two years of completing his/her minimum term, and who has not reached 40 years of age at the time he/she is approved for participation in the motivational boot camp program. The term shall not include any inmate who is subject to a sentence the calculation of which included an enhancement for the use of a deadly weapon as defined pursuant to the sentencing guidelines promulgated by the Pennsylvania Commission on Sentencing, any inmate who has been convicted or adjudicated delinquent of any crime requiring registration of sexual offenders as listed in 11.6.1, any inmate who is less than age 18, or any inmate with a current conviction or a prior conviction within the past ten years for any of the following offenses:
18 Pa.C.S. §2502 (relating to murder);
18 Pa.C.S. §2503 (relating to voluntary manslaughter);
18 Pa.C.S. §2506 (relating to drug delivery resulting in death);
18 Pa.C.S. §3301(a)(1)(i), (relating to arson and related offenses);
18 Pa.C.S. §3701(a)(1)(i), (ii), (iii) (relating to robbery);
18 Pa.C.S. §3702 (relating to robbery of motor vehicle); and
18 Pa.C.S. §7508(a)(1)(iii), (a)(2)(iii), (a)(3)(iii) or (a)(4)(iii) (relating to drug trafficking sentencing and penalties).
The Motivational Boot Camp Act, P.L. 1391, No. 215 (61 P.S. §3901 et seq) does not specifically exclude inchoate offenses; therefore, conviction for attempt, conspiracy or solicitation to commit an offense listed on the Eligible Inmate Criteria does not make an inmate statutorily ineligible.
An inmate may be made Boot Camp eligible even if a mandatory minimum sentence applies.
The prosecuting attorney may waive the eligibility requirements if the victim has been given notice and opportunity to be heard. The court, after considering victim input, may refuse to accept the prosecuting attorney’s waiver of the eligibility requirements.
First Phase -- Orientation
Cadets begtin working toward initial goals for community living. The focus in this phase is on physical training, assessments for education and treatment needs and work goals. This also is the beginning of mental restructuring.
Second Phase - Green Phase
Boot Camp cadets begin to learn about treatment skills, work ethic and/or educational goals. They learn to work as a team and to develop a motivation toward something larger then themselves.
Out-Patient Drug and Alcohol Group
Seeking Safety- PTSD Treatment
Community Awareness Programming:
Vocational Programs, such as OSHA, Building Trades and Custodial Maintenance, Fiber-optics, and more
Resume buildingJob searching skills
Third Phase - Red Phase
In this phase, cadets begin to apply treatment skills and continue to work on work ethics and/or education goals. They also continue with discipline and mental restructuring.
Fourth Phase - Gold Phase
In this phase, cadets prepare to go home.
· The Boot Camp has a high completion rate, with 84% of those who enter graduating.
· The latest research on the results of the Boot Camp shows that inmates who have successfully completed the program, have a three-year recidivism rate that is almost 6½ percent lower than a group of non-participants.
· Since 2007, 676 Boot Camp inmates have received their GEDs, with the Boot Camp averaging 81 percent of inmates testing for GED achieving a passing score.
· The Boot Camp began awarding Commonwealth Secondary Diplomas in Sept. 2012, with 400 diplomas being earned so far (100 percent success rate).
· The Boot Camp is fully accredited by the American Correctional Association (ACA) and is the only facility in the DOC which has 100 percent of its inmate population involved in treatment programming.
· Each inmate that successfully completes the Boot Camp Program saves the tax payers of Pennsylvania approximately $11,267.
· In 2016 alone, the Boot Camp program generated an estimated savings to the Commonwealth of $4 million.
Superintendent: Mary Natoli
for Centralized Services: James Stover
for Facilities Management: Frazer Blake
Superintendent's Assistant: Melissa Billotte
Boot Camp Facts
The Quehanna Boot Camp offers an alternative to traditional incarceration. The goal of Boot Camp is to provide discipline, structure and skills to the lives of eligible inmates and to promote these qualities in the post-release behavior of eligible inmates
From 1948 to 1959, the then-Pennsylvania Bureau of Forestry leased the current site of Quehanna Boot Camp to Curtiss-Wright, a nuclear jet engine research and testing site. In 1962, Piper Aircraft Inc. leased the site for metal and parts fabrication to be used in the construction of aircraft. With the closing of the Quehanna Piper Aircraft site in 1978, the land reverted back to the Bureau of Forestry. In August 1991, the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections leased the site for the development of its first Motivational Boot Camp. Renovations were completed in early 1992 and the Boot Camp received its first platoon of twelve inmates in June 1992.
In 1997, former Governor Ridge set aside funds for renovation of a 120,000-square-foot former metal fabrication plant. In 1998, reconstruction efforts began on the building, which was designed to house and completely accommodate 400 inmates, leaving other existing buildings for administrative offices and storage. The building was dedicated in July 1999 and occupied by inmates in October 1999.
In April 2002, Quehanna was initially accredited as an adult boot camp. In October 2009, Quehanna was accredited as an adult correctional institution and reaccredited in October 2012.
On June 22, 1992, under Legislative Act 215 of 1990 as amended by Act 86 of 1996 and found in PA Statutes 61 P.S. 1121-1129, Pennsylvania’s Department of Corrections opened the Quehanna Boot Camp in Clearfield County.
0515 – Wake up/Reveille
0540 – Morning Physical Training (PT)
0630 – Morning PT Shower
0700 – Boot Camp Breakfast
0745 – Work Lines, Treatment Classes, Education
Classes, and Other Classes
1115 – Boot Camp Lunch
1230 -- Work Lines, Treatment Classes, Education
1700 – Boot Camp Evening Meal
1800 – Self-help, peer assistant, volunteer groups and/or
Drill Instructor time
2010 – Remedial Physical Training
2105 – Prepare for the next day
2130 – Boot Camp lights out
Teammates may earn free time and positive incentives based on their phase and their individual performances.