Statutes | Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Law Title 2, Chapter 6 ยง 1 | 2018
In order to provide an alternative to custodial sentencing which emphasizes rehabilitation rather than retribution and in recognition of the reality that penal consequences alone do not effectively deter future criminal activity, the Tribal Council hereby creates the Mashantucket Pequot Pre-trial Intervention Program ("PTI"). This program has among its purposes the following:
a. To provide defendants with opportunities to avoid ordinary prosecution by receiving early rehabilitative services when such services can reasonably be expected to deter future criminal behavior by the defendant, and when there is an apparent causal connection between the offense charged and the rehabilitative need, without which cause both the alleged offense and the need to prosecute might not have occurred.
b. To provide for meaningful tribal community participation in the criminal justice system through the establishment of a commission of tribal elders who shall assist in formulating a rehabilitative plan for each PTI applicant which will serve to balance tribal concerns with unlawful behavior with the need to deter and rehabilitate such offenders.
c. To provide an alternative to prosecution for defendants who might be harmed by the imposition of criminal sanctions as presently administered, when such an alternative can be expected to serve as sufficient sanctions to deter criminal conduct.
d. To provide a mechanism for permitting the least burdensome form of prosecution possible for defendants charged with "victimless" offenses.
e. To deter future criminal or disorderly behavior by a defendant/participant in PTI.