Offender Reformation Centers (ORCs) are those centers which would be used for the betterment of offenders placed on probation or parole. Punjab Probation and Parole Service is going to establish these centers at grass root level of Punjab. At initial level, the department is trying to build these institutions of reformations at district level.
Under this model, ORCs would operate in following ways:
When probation officer would receive the case from the Court, he would refer the same to concerned Offender Reformation Center for further proceeding. Thus, the role of Probation Officer placed in a certain court would simply be to please the court.
In ORC, Case Assessment (CA) would be performed by the team mainly comprised of senior Probation Officers. In this phase, two steps would be followed:
Risk Assessment would be conducted by using questionnaires and interviews.
Needs Assessment would also be done through questionnaires.
After that, Case Planning would be done a designated team in ORC. Here, at first, interpretation of given information would be made. This step holds immense significance in the entire process. On the basis of that information, a plan would be devised for the offender to make him/her useful citizen of society. In this connection, intervention techniques would be also suggested to make plan workable.
In case implementation phase, a team would work to implement the plan chalk out by the planning team.
Case Evaluation phase is the final knot in the whole process. Here, a team of experts would evaluate the whole process. They would conduct internal assessment or audit of the whole process from Case Assessment Phase to Case Implementation level.
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