(1) The Government has a basic obligation to protect the public by providing institutional confinement and care of offenders and, where appropriate, treatment in the community;
(2) Efforts to rehabilitate and restore criminal offenders as lawabiding and productive members of society are essential to the reduction of crime;
(3) Upgrading of correctional institutions and rehabilitative services deserves priority consideration as a means of lowering crime rates and of preventing offenders, particularly youths, first offenders, and misdemeanants, from becoming trapped in careers of crime; and
(4) Correctional institutions and services should be so diversified in programs and personnel as to facilitate individualized treatment.