The State Corrections System
Presentation
• Department mission, organization, budget,
central services
• An evidence based approach to effective
corrections
• State Correctional Facilities and Programs
• Adult Community Corrections
• Partnerships/Collaboration
MISSION
The mission of the Department of
Corrections is to reduce the likelihood that
juvenile and adult offenders will re-offend
by providing practices, programs and
services which are evidence based and
which hold the offenders accountable.
Guiding Principles
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Evidence Based Practices
Services for Victims
Collaboration
Achieving Results, Ensuring Quality
Services and Meeting Professional
Standards
• Investing in our People and the
Organization
• Prevention
Organization
• The department is organized into
Juvenile services, including juvenile
community corrections and the two juvenile
correctional facilities
Adult services, including adult community
corrections and the 6 state correctional
facilities
Department Services
Department Services
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Victim Services
Health Care/Medical Services
Treatment and Intervention Services
Female Programs
Internal Operations – Investigations,
inspections, accreditation, construction
• Offender Advocacy
• Training
Other Responsibilities
• Oversight responsibility:
– Jail Inspections, standards
– Batterers Intervention Programs Standards
• Provided by Department of Administrative
and Financial Services:
– Budget, Finance and Human Resources
– Information Technology
Quick Facts
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1,353 employees
$154,921,214 FY09 Budget
4.8% of General Fund expenditures
Lowest incarceration rate in the country
(133 prisoners per 100,000 population)
• 45th rank among the states on the per
capita expenditure on corrections
• 46th rank among the states on the
percentage of General Fund
GENERAL FUND
APPROPRIATIONS
2008-2009 BIENNIUM
Department FY08 Expenditures
• Adult Corrections
(Adult facilities and
probation)
• Juvenile Corrections
• Medical Services
• Administrative and
Support Services
• Community
Corrections Fund
• $83,129,976
• $40,554,564
• $18,600,243
• $9,210,499
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$5,641,632
MDOC Adult Staffing
Facility
# of Employees
MSP (Maine State Prison)
375
MCC (Maine Correctional Center)
249
BCF (Bolduc Correctional Facility)
37
CMPRC (Central Maine Pre-Release Center)
20
DCF (Downeast Correctional Facility)
66
CCF (Charleston Correctional Facility)
48
Adult Community (Probation)
Total Adult
100
895
NIC Implementing Evidence Based
Principles
Leading Organizational Change
and Development
(internal strategies)
The same principles used to manage
offender cases and change offender
behavior can be used to manage
organizations and change organizational
behavior.
Initiatives
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Leadership development
Organizational culture
Recruitment and retention
Coaching Model of Supervision
Cross cutting teams
The Use of Technology
• CORIS: Offender management system
• Video Conferencing
• Security systems
CORIS
• MDOC has developed and implemented a “web-based”
offender management system (OMS) known as CORIS
(Corrections Information System).
• CORIS is the only system in the U.S. that has integrated
business requirements for Adult Facilities, Adult
Community, Juvenile Facilities and Juvenile Community.
This integration has enabled the department to provide a
continuity of service that was previously not feasible.
• CORIS has been recognized nationally as a state-of-the-art
platform that is quickly building a valuable repository of
operational and statistical data.
– Maine is one of only two states chosen for a National
Institute of Corrections (NIC) study in which data from
CORIS is analyzed to determine the effectiveness of
targeted programs for reducing the likelihood of
offenders re-offending.
CORIS (cont.)
• MDOC has received American Corrections Association
accreditation for a number of its correctional facilities, and
CORIS has played a significant role in achieving this.
• Client trust accounts have been integrated into CORIS,
thereby allowing DOC to manage all aspects of the client’s
funds, including telephone funds.
• The Maine DOC is now implementing a CORIS Phone
System that is intended to provide more efficient, secure
and cost-effective telephones services at all DOC facilities
state-wide.
• Several states have indicated an interest in making CORIS
their OMS with Virginia and New Hampshire already
implementing their first release of CORIS.
Collaboration
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Maine Reentry Network
Jurisdiction Team Planning
DHHS/DOC Mental Health Action Plan
USM Justice Policy Center
http://muskie.usm.maine.edu/justiceresearch/