Maine Board of Corrections March 18, 2009

1. Corrections Working Group Presents: Maine Board of Corrections March 18, 2009 ONE MAINE ONE SYSTEM Maine’s Unified Correctional System Design Development Process Discussion

2. Correctional Working Group Recommendations • Mission, goals and guiding principles • Correctional Service Delivery System • Implementation Priorities and Timeline • Specific Implementation Actions • Investment/Funding • Statutory Changes

3. Recommendation #1 Mission, Goals, Guiding Principles

4. Unified Correctional System Design/Development Process 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:

5. 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

6. 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;

7. Guiding Principles, cont • 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;

8. Guiding Principles, cont • 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;

9. Guiding Principles, cont • 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.

10. Objectives • Mission Change: Develop a plan for correctional facility & county jail use and purpose within the adopted unified correctional system design; • Program Improvements: Adopt consistent statewide treatment standards and policies for: • Pretrial, alternative sentence, revocation and reentry programs; • Inmates with mental illness; • Coordinated transportation system of inmates in the unified correctional system • Achieve Efficiencies: Develop a method to identify and manage the cost of corrections to achieve systemic cost savings and invest these savings strategically

11. Decision Time • Recommendation #1: Mission, Goals, Guiding Principles

12. Recommendation #2 Correctional Service Delivery System How do we incorporate the existing state and county facilities and programs into a systems approach?

13. A Snapshot of Current Facilities:County Jails County Jails

14. A Snapshot of Current Facilities:County Pre-Release Centers County Jails County Pre-Release Centers

15. A Snapshot of Current Facilities:State of Maine Facilities

16. A Snapshot of Current Facilities:Adult Community Corrections

17. Can we categorize correctional services in a way that assists in creating service districts?

18. Service Catchment Categories

19. 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

20. 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

21. Reentry Services • Services that support successful return to community, employment, family, treatment • High risk offenders • Access to supportive community services and resources • Structured supervision

22. Long Sentenced Offenders • 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

23. 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)

24. DisclaimerNote: 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

25. Recommended New System 1. Four Correctional Services Regions (based on aggregates of Judicial Districts) • 12 TO 72 Hour holding facilities in all Counties • 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

27. Statewide System Needs:Infirmary Services Maine State Prison - Warren MCC - Windham Cumberland County Jail York County Jail

28. Decision Time • Recommendation #2: Correctional Service Delivery System

29. Recommendation #3 Implementation Priorities and Timeline How does the Board develop its plan for implementing the system design? We cannot do it all, at once, everywhere

30. 3 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

31. Remember your Objectives! • Mission Change • Program Improvements • Efficiencies

32. Service Catchment Categories Phase 3 Phase 2 Phase 1

33. Priority Timeline • Phase 1 • Pretrial Services/diversion • Transportation • Pilot Reentry • Bail notification -- victims • Phase 2 • Reentry Services • Alternatives to Incarceration • Transition Services • Food Services/Commissary • Phase 3 • Specialty Services • Standardize Medical

34. Decision Time • Recommendation #3: Implementation Priorities and Timeline

35. Recommendation #4 Specific Implementation Actions

36. 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

37. Phase 1July 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

38. Phase 1County Jail Mission Changes Piscataquis – Up to 72 hr Hold. Franklin – Up to 72 hr Hold. Waldo – Up to 72 hr Hold/Reentry Coastal Service Region Oxford– Up to 72 hr Hold.

39. Phase 2July 1, 2010 – June 30, 2011 • Expand reentry services statewide • Mission changes for remaining 3 reentry locations • Policy development • Investment decisions

40. Reentry Model Flow Chart Custody Screening, LSI & Case Plans Initial Classification: Appropriate security/programming housing placement Low Risk Moderate & High Risk SCCP, Home Release or Day Reporting Community Based Residential Reentry Centers Released Released SCCP or Home Release

41. Phase 3July 1, 2011 – June 30, 2012 • Create specialty units for mental health, substance abuse • Infirmary services • Consistent medical services

42. Decision Time • Recommendation #4

43. Recommendation #5 Investment and Funding

44. Cost of County Corrections *$600,000 estimated savings from mission changes of four counties and 75%of the requested new money

45. Budget Issues • Process for: • Reinvestment from Mission Changes • “Scrub” County Budgets • Can we “book” savings from efficiencies (transportation in FY10, pretrial/reentry FY11) • Federal Grant Funds availability • General Fund Appropriation • Resource allocation: • Reallocate CCA and fine revenue • Eliminate Boarding Rates

46. Decision Time • Recommendation #5: Investment and Funding

47. Recommendation #6 Statutory Changes

48. Legislative Items • Boarding rates, fund balances, DOC budget • 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

49. Decision Time • Recommendation #6: Statutory Changes