the National Center for Effective Public Policy, as well as other local and
national organizations have focused their efforts on, not only identifying the
problems of incarceration, but also identifying feasible and acceptable alternatives. In the following two sections, case disposition options available in
Oklahoma and in other states are reviewed.
Programs Used in Oklahoma and Other States
Commonly Used Alternatives. In January 1984, the District Attorneys Training
Coordination Council produced a list of sixteen statutory alternatives to incarceration which may be invoked in Oklahoma:
1. Fines
2. Forfeitures
3. County Jail Time
4. Confinement in a Drug Treatment or Rehabilitation Facility
5. Commitment to an Approved Drug or Alcohol Treatment Facility
6. Deferred Judgment (sometimes referred to as Deferred Sentencing)
7. Deferred Prosecutions
8. Suspended Sentences which may include
a. probation
b. restitution to the victim
c. reimbursement to state agencies for a victim's hospital and medical
expense
d. community service without compensation
e. payment to a trust fund for a victim
9. Split Sentences (part served, part suspended)
10. Night or weekend incarceration in a county jail
11. Referral to the Bogus Check Restitution program
12. Paroles
13. Department of Corrections statutory administrative reduction in sentences
for good time credits, work credits, education credits
14. Nonviolent Intermediate Offender Act (NIO)
15. Sentence modification after 120-day review (120JR)
16. Dispute Resolution Act
Among the sentencing options described above are many which are used in one
form or another in other states. A recent report from the American Corrections
Association found that the most often used alternatives to incarceration
were probation, split sentences and shock probation, restitution, community
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service and fines. According to the annual Felony Disposition Summary of the
Arrest Disposition Reporting System, the District Attorneys' information system,
25.3 percent of the sentenced felony cases were given probation in 1983, 15.2
