Maine Board of Corrections Maine Board of Corrections March 25, 2009March 25, 2009

Maine’s Unified Correctional System Design Development

Process Discussion

Presents:

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Mission, Goals, Guiding Principles

MISSION

  The mission of the Board of Corrections is to design, guide and invest strategically in the development of a unified state and county corrections system and to sustain and manage the system in order to accomplish the following goals:

Goals

• Reduces recidivism;  

• Increases pretrial diversion and post conviction release; 

• Reduces the rate and use of incarceration;  

• Achieves efficiencies; and 

• Reduces the rate of growth in the cost of corrections

Guiding Principles

A Unified State and County Corrections System that:

• Reduces risk through the use of Evidence Based Practices and encourages sentencing in accordance with risk;

• Creates an integrated, regional system built on the strengths of the existing state and county facilities and services and is based on differentiated missions;

• Is a stewardship approach that manages and maintains the existing assets and resources for the maximum benefit and invests strategically to accomplish system goals;

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• Allows innovation, but is collaboratively based and recognizes that decisions about change and its management are shared;

• Creates incentives for us all to work together and promotes cohesion;

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• Is consistent with the compromise enacted in Public Law 653;

• Incorporates the recommendations of the Corrections Alternatives Advisory Committee and the two plans developed by the state and the counties;

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• Meets the system’s needs for risk management and security housing; and

• Works in concert with other policy makers including the Legislature, the Judiciary and the Sentencing Council.

• Involves and includes local stakeholders including prosecutors, local law enforcement, and others

Objectives 

• Mission Change: Develop a plan for every correctional facility & county jail use and purpose within the adopted unified correctional system design;

• Program Improvements: Adopt consistent statewide standards and policies, such as but not limited to:– Pretrial, alternative sentence, revocation

and reentry programs;– Inmates with mental illness;– Coordinated transportation system of

inmates in the unified correctional system

– Improved use of technology• Achieve Efficiencies: Develop a method

to identify and manage the cost of corrections to achieve systemic cost savings and invest these savings strategically

Correctional Service Delivery System

How do we incorporate the existing state and county facilities and

programs into a systems approach?

A Snapshot of Current Facilities:A Snapshot of Current Facilities:County JailsCounty Jails

County JailsCounty Jails

A Snapshot of Current Facilities:A Snapshot of Current Facilities:County Pre-Release CentersCounty Pre-Release Centers

County JailsCounty Jails

County Pre-Release CentersCounty Pre-Release Centers

A Snapshot of Current Facilities:A Snapshot of Current Facilities:State of Maine FacilitiesState of Maine Facilities

A Snapshot of Current Facilities:A Snapshot of Current Facilities:Adult Community CorrectionsAdult Community Corrections

Correctional Services

Can we categorize correctional services in a

way that assists in creating service districts?

Service Catchment Categories

Community and court based services

• Services that are community based: arrests, bail, court appearances, probation

• Services that allow an offender to retain community, employment, treatment and family connections; primarily lower risk offenders

• Examples: Short term holding facilities; diversion programs; alternatives to incarceration; short sentences, revocation centers, day reporting

Probation Services• Services that are accessible to

courts and community services

• Allow for consistent risk based supervision and case management

• Leadership in risk assessment, case management

• Support reentry and alternatives to incarceration

Reentry Services

• Services that support successful return to community, employment, family, treatment

• High risk offenders

• Access to supportive community services and resources

• Structured supervision

Long Sentenced Offenders/Specialized

Interventions• Services that provide appropriate

security levels (medium security and higher) and programs for offenders with sentences of 9 months or longer

• Specialized treatment and transition programs for high risk offenders, sex offenders and substance abuse treatment

• Specialized interventions for female offenders, cultural approaches

Acute/High Risk

• Services that provide appropriate security level for high risk offenders (sentenced and pretrial)

• Services that provide appropriate treatment or intervention for acute needs (infirmary, inpatient mental health)

As the system evolves, it’s important to note that one size does not fit all in this process. The remainder of this presentation focuses on correctional service delivery based on Service Catchment Regions and Statewide Needs

Recommended New System

1. Four Correctional Services Regions

(based on aggregates of Judicial Districts)

• 12 TO 72 Hour holding facilities as necessary based on need/cost/ benefit

• Pretrial Facilities (Pretrial & Sentences of 90 days or less)

• Full service jails (adult male/female, all classification, pretrial, & sentences up to 9 months)

• Pretrial and Alternative Sentencing Programs

• Community Corrections/Probation Services

• Reentry Centers/work release• Victim Services

Statewide System Needs:Infirmary Services

Maine State Prison - WarrenMaine State Prison - Warren

Cumberland County JailCumberland County Jail

York County JailYork County Jail

MCC - WindhamMCC - Windham

Implementation Priorities and Timeline

How does the Board develop its plan for

implementing the system design?

We cannot do it all, at once, everywhere

Phased Approach To System Design

• Phase 1 – July 1, 2009 – June 30, 2010

• Phase 2 – July 1, 2010 – June 30, 2011

• Phase 3 – July 1, 2011 – June 30, 2012

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Priority Timeline

• Phase 1: Cost Reduction and Slowing the Growth in Costs– Major mission changes– Pretrial Services/diversion– Transportation– Pilot Reentry– Bail notification – victims– Performance measurement

system• Goals• Efficiencies/cost

Priority Timeline

• Phase 2: Achieving Greater Efficiencies and Reducing the Growth in Costs– Reentry Services– Alternatives to Incarceration– Transition Services– Food Services/Commissary

Priority Timeline

• Phase 3: Improved Services and Systems of Care– Specialty Services– Standardize Medical

Accomplishing the Priorities

• Review and change mission for the facilities in each region to accomplish the priority objective

• Revise the laws as need to accomplish the priority

• Add capacity (not beds) for the board and the system

• Identify the investment needs, savings from efficiencies and resource allocation decisions

• Develop standardized policies and practices

Phase 1Cost Reduction and Slowing the

Growth in CostsJuly 1, 2009 – June 30, 2010

• County Jail Mission changes: pretrial

• Statutory changes• Create director for

pretrial/diversion/reentry• Investment of pretrial $; access

federal assistance• Policy development for pretrial and

home release• Pretrial services based on 4

regional contracts• Pilot reentry center• Transportation HUBS• Performance measurement

Phase 1County Jail Mission Changes

Piscataquis –Piscataquis –Up to 72 hr Hold.Up to 72 hr Hold.

Franklin –Franklin –Up to 72 hr HoldUp to 72 hr Hold..

Oxford–Oxford–Up to 72 hr HoldUp to 72 hr Hold..

Waldo –Waldo –Up to 72 hr Up to 72 hr

Hold/ReentryHold/ReentryCoastal Service Coastal Service

RegionRegion

Phase 2Achieving Greater Efficiencies and

Reducing the Growth in Costs

July 1, 2010 – June 30, 2011

• Expand reentry services statewide

• Mission changes for remaining 3 reentry locations

• Policy development

• Investment decisions

Reentry Model Flow Chart

Initial Classification: Appropriate security/programming housing

placement

Custody Screening, LSI & Case Plans

Low Risk

SCCP,Home Release

or Day Reporting

Moderate & High Risk

Community Based Residential Reentry

Centers

SCCP or Home Release

Released

Released

Phase 3Improved Services and Systems of

CareJuly 1, 2011 – June 30, 2012

• Create specialty units for Create specialty units for mental health, substance mental health, substance abuseabuse

• Infirmary servicesInfirmary services

• Consistent medical servicesConsistent medical services

• Gender responsive programsGender responsive programs

• Culturally appropriate servicesCulturally appropriate services

Investment and Funding

Investment Fund

• $3.5 million request represents– Savings from mission changes in

4 counties;– 75% reduction in initial budget

submissions of remaining 12 counties

Budget Issues

1. Process for: Reinvestment from Mission Changes “Scrub” County Budgets

2. Can we “book” savings from efficiencies (transportation in FY10, pretrial/reentry FY11)

3. Federal Grant Funds availability

4. General Fund Appropriation

5. Resource allocation: Reallocate CCA and fine revenue Eliminate Boarding Rates

Statutory Changes

Legislative Proposals

• Efficiencies in the Transportation of Prisoners

• Home Release Monitoring Program• Early Release of Terminally Ill or

Severely Medically Incapacitated Prisoners

• Expand the Maine Governmental Facilities Authority’s Ability to Include County Correctional Facilities

• Certificate of Need Process  • Process and Standards for Closing or

Downsizing a Correctional Facility or a County Jail

• Boarding rates, fund balances, DOC budget