Maine Board of Corrections
March 25, 2009
Presents:
ONE MAINE
ONE SYSTEM
Maine’s Unified Correctional
System Design Development
Process Discussion
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;
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;
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;
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.
• 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:
County Jails
County Jails
A Snapshot of Current Facilities:
County Pre-Release Centers
County Jails
County Pre-Release Centers
A Snapshot of Current Facilities:
State of Maine Facilities
A Snapshot of Current Facilities:
Adult Community Corrections
Correctional Services
Can we categorize
correctional services in a
way that assists in
creating service districts?
Service Catchment
Categories
Acute/high
risk
Long sentenced
offenders;
specialty
programs for high
risk, high needs
Reentry Services:
intensive interventions for
high risk offenders
returning to the community
Probation services
Services that require access to courts,
community services for primarily lower risk
offenders:
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
MCC - Windham
Maine State Prison - Warren
Cumberland County Jail
York County Jail
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
Service Catchment
Categories
Acute/high
risk
Long sentenced
offenders;
specialty
programs for high
risk, high needs
Reentry Services:
intensive interventions for
high risk offenders
returning to the community
Probation services
Services that require access to courts,
community services for primarily lower risk
offenders:
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
Acute/high risk
Long sentenced
offenders; specialty
programs for high
risk, high needs
Reentry Services: intensive
interventions for high risk
offenders returning to the
community
Probation services
Services that require access to courts, community
services for primarily lower risk offenders:
Priority Timeline
• Phase 2: Achieving Greater
Efficiencies and Reducing
the Growth in Costs
– Reentry Services
– Alternatives to Incarceration
– Transition Services
– Food Services/Commissary
Acute/high risk
Long sentenced
offenders; specialty
programs for high
risk, high needs
Reentry Services: intensive
interventions for high risk
offenders returning to the
community
Probation services
Services that require access to courts, community
services for primarily lower risk offenders:
Priority Timeline
• Phase 3: Improved Services
and Systems of Care
– Specialty Services
– Standardize Medical
Acute/high risk
Long sentenced
offenders; specialty
programs for high
risk, high needs
Reentry Services: intensive
interventions for high risk
offenders returning to the
community
Probation services
Services that require access to courts, community
services for primarily lower risk offenders:
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 1
Cost Reduction and Slowing the
Growth in Costs
July 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 1
County Jail Mission Changes
Piscataquis –
Up to 72 hr Hold.
Franklin –
Up to 72 hr Hold.
Oxford–
Up to 72 hr Hold.
Waldo –
Up to 72 hr
Hold/Reentry
Coastal Service
Region
Phase 2
Achieving 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
Custody Screening, LSI & Case
Plans
Initial Classification: Appropriate
security/programming housing
placement
Low Risk
SCCP,
Home Release
or Day
Reporting
Moderate
& High
Risk
Community Based
Residential Reentry
Centers
Released
SCCP or Home
Release
Released
Phase 3
Improved Services and Systems of
Care
July 1, 2011 – June 30, 2012
• Create specialty units for
mental health, substance
abuse
• Infirmary services
• Consistent medical services
• Gender responsive programs
• Culturally 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