Pennsylvania Code
Title 37 - LAW
Part III - Agencies and Offices
Subpart B - DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS
Chapter 97 - STATE INTERMEDIATE PUNISHMENT DRUG OFFENDER TREATMENT PROGRAM
Section 97.109 - Program advancement and regression

(a) An individual DOTP contemplates that a participant will advance through treatment provided in progressively less restrictive treatment settings. The Department anticipates that some participants who have progressed to a less restrictive treatment setting will benefit from an additional period of treatment or confinement in a more restrictive setting or location. Consistent with the minimum time requirements set forth in the act, the Department may transfer a participant to a State correctional institution, an institutional therapeutic community, a community-based therapeutic community, an outpatient addiction treatment program or an approved transitional residence. The Department may transfer a participant between less restrictive and more restrictive settings based upon the participant's progress or regression in treatment or for medical, disciplinary or other administrative reasons.

(b) The Chief of the Department's Central Office Treatment Division or a designee will determine whether a participant will be transferred to a different setting or location. The Department's goal will be to take the action that it believes will maximize the use of programming resources by continuing to treat those participants it believes will most likely complete and benefit from a DOTP by becoming productive, law-abiding members of society while allowing the Department to use its available programming resources efficiently and effectively.