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Overview of Adult Community Corrections

Overview of Adult Community Corrections. Outline . Organizational Structure Probation population breakdown Evidence Based Practices in Probation Probation Revocations Specialized Caseloads and Problem Solving Courts. Organizational Structure. Bangor. *. Auburn. *.

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Overview of Adult Community Corrections

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  1. Overview of Adult Community Corrections

  2. Outline • Organizational Structure • Probation population breakdown • Evidence Based Practices in Probation • Probation Revocations • Specialized Caseloads and Problem Solving Courts

  3. Organizational Structure

  4. Bangor * Auburn * Adult Community Services Region 1 Region 2 Region 3 Region 4

  5. RegionalOrganization 74 Probation Officers Statewide

  6. Caseload & Offender Data • 74 Probation Officers • Average caseload size is 97 total / 84 Active* • 7628 offenders total; 6324 active * *Average includes smaller specialized caseloads and assumes no vacancies

  7. Active Probation Population (6324 total)

  8. Statewide Gender Breakdown

  9. Evidence Based Practices in Probation

  10. Changing Strategies/Practices to Achieve Same Goal… Public Safety • Still pursuing Public Safety but a wide body of research/evidence now supports different approach to achieve public safety. • Doing “What Works” and supported by research to achieve public safety by reducing recidivism) • Small reductions of risk across a broadscale of offenders.

  11. Examples of Evidence Based Practices in Probation • Identification of Risk by Assessment • Vary supervision intensity, programming, and strategy by identify risks and needs • Use Motivational Interviewing • Formalized case planning • Quality Assurance

  12. Identification of Risk by Assessment • Level of Service Inventory –Revised(LSI-R) (Andrew,Bonta) • Perhaps the most widely used offender assessment instrument: A 1999 national study found that 14% of agencies surveyed were using the LSI-R and another 6% had plans to implement its use. Jones, D.A., Johnson, S., Latessa, E.J., and Travis, L.F. (1999). Case classification in community corrections: Preliminary findings from a national survey. Topics in Community Corrections. Washington D.C.: National Institute of Corrections, U.S. Dept. of Justice.

  13. LSI-R • Perhaps the most researched correctional risk/needs assessment • Since the first validation in 1982 it has continued to show predictive validity. Andrews, D.A. (1982). The Level of Supervision Inventory (LSI): the first follow-up: Toronto: Ontario Ministry of Correctional Services Andrews, D.A., Dowden, C. and Gendreau, P. (1999). Clinically relevant and psychologically informed approaches to reduced re-offending: A meta-analytic study of human service, risk, need, responsivity and other concerns in justice contexts. Ottawa: Carleton University

  14. Probation Population Risk Levels

  15. Population Breakdown by Risk Risk: Defined as likelihood of recidivating as defined by the Level of Service Inventory –Revised(LSI-R) Categories: Administrative (0-13) Low (14-20) Moderate (21-25) High (26-34) Maximum (35-50)

  16. Statewide Risk Breakdown

  17. Population Breakdown by Risk

  18. Probation Revocations • Account for a significant percentage of DOC and County Jail incarcerations • A significant percentage of probation revocations are the result of technical violations

  19. What influences revocation decisions? • Risk • Probation Officers • District Attorneys • Judges • Severity and/or number of violations • Victim impact

  20. Revocation Reduction Measures • Directive requiring supervisory review of cases with pending violations where revocations in excess of 90 days being sought. • Pilot program in York County where LSI-R risk level and case history is being provided directly to the court for all probation violations. • Plans for the creation of a “Technical Violations Unit” and/or a “Probation Re-entry Program” modeled after successful programs in Connecticut.

  21. Problem Solving Courts

  22. Problem-Solving Courts Courts taking innovative approaches with specific problems that cause criminal behavior such as substance abuse, mental health, and domestic violence. Problem solving courts in Maine include: • Drug Court • Mental Health Court • Judicial Monitoring for Domestic Violence Offenders

  23. Specialist Caseloads • Domestic Violence Specialist Caseloads (York and Cumberland Counties) • Sex Offender Specialist Caseloads – in all 4 probation regions • Supervised Community Confinement* *specialist caseloads in some areas

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