Adult Community Justice

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Adult Community Justice

• Five Year Departmental Re-Design
• Phase I and Phase II

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1997Theme 1 Shifted Resources/Changed
Supervision Approach

• Specialized Caseloads
• Developed new programs and sanctions
• Eliminated ineffective services/programs
  if not
• Best Practices
• Training for offender change
• Reduce recidivism
• Better serve high and medium risk
  offenders

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Field Supervision

• Shift from services to all
• risk offenders
• High Mediums, plus
• targeted offenses DV,
• sex offenders, multiple
• DUII, person/violence
• offenses
• CTS 1500 prior to
• Phase I/4,000 following
• Phase I

• Why January 97 Audit
• Cost effective
• No apparent risk to community
• No increase in recidivism
• Caseloads 701, Mar.97 to 50-551, April 98

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Specialized Supervision

• Strengthened existing supervision strategies for
• - gang
• - sex offender
• - African American
• - Domestic violence
• - Female offenders

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Specialized Supervision (Continued)

• Treatment Sanctions Enhanced Programs
• ASSP (Alternative Sentence Sanction
  Program) - 90 day alternative
• Offender Assessment Development
• - Pilot of LSI-R for H/M Risk

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Specialized Supervision (Continued)

• Secure Residential A D Treatment
• - contracted for pre-treatment beds
• - hired AD Services Manager
• - Interchange 6 months inpatient

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Specialized Supervision (Continued)

• Stop Diversion
• - 6 to 12 months court monitored treatment
  for 1st
• time drug offenders
• - charge is dismissed

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Specialized Supervision (Continued)

• Enhanced the following programs
• Work Release
• Day Reporting Center
• Forest Project
• Community Service
• Electronic Monitoring
• Short Term Sanctions

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Supervision Fees

• Audit increase attention to collections
• Implemented improved tracking system
• -1997 - 32,000/month
• -2001 - 70,000/month

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Local Control

• 1995 New law 12 monthsltCounty
  responsibility
• Effective 1997 ACJ established unit
• New legal issues re-worked warrants
  process,
• hearings, and release date
  calculations
• Swift and certain intermediate sanctions

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Major Phase I Results

• Merger of Juvenile and Adult
• Department became Community Justice
• Best Practices introduced
• High/Medium Focus
• Additional specialized case loads created

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1999Themes Phase II Begins

• Enhanced Needs Assessment
• Interventions specific to psychological,
  emotional
• and educational functioning of offender

• Process numerous committees/work groups six
  
• focus groups involved 120 staff
• New Programs/Services enhance our ability to
  
• identify/respond to risk and need factors

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Themes ( Continued)

• Organizational Changes
• - developed department wide policies and
  procedures
• - accountability focus at all
  organizational levels
• - created sense of meaning for work
• - build capacity and competency within
  department
• - developed succession plan for
  leadership

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Discontinuation of ASSP

• Mid 1999
• Needs of low/limited risk offenders gt for
  staffing
• Design inconsistent with redesign
• Low versus High
• Incorporated into Centralized Team
  Supervision

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Enhanced Centralized Intake

• Intake all probationers, parolees and
• post-prison offenders
• Initial assessments and action plans
• Moved Justice Center Intake staff to
• Mead

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Transitions Services Unit

• Integrate all staff resources relative to
  housing and
• transitional services
• Increase success opportunities
• Jail Prison
• Housing safe, secure, and alcohol and drug
  free
• Gang/Sex Offender transition positions
  created

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Centralized Team Supervision

• Monitoring and report only
• More cases with fewer staff
• Staff reassignments

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Phase II ACJ Development

• New vision statement, mission statement and
  guiding
• principles
• New employee orientation
• Unit plans
• Enhance public safety
• Promote positive change of offenders
• Create healthy work environment
• Other goals consistent with best practices

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Special Management Unit (SST)

• Identify most high risk, violent offenders
• HARE psychopathy check list/assessment
• Strong Surveillance component

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Interchange Secure A/D Facility

• On-line November 1999
• Located in Washington County
• Six month secure residential treatment with
• pro-social skills component

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Family Services Unit

• Juvenile and Adult blending
• Families with adults and juveniles under
  supervision
• - 250-300 adults
• -20 to 60 juveniles
• Pregnant offenders

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Clean Court Supervision Unit

• One year in planning
• Implemented March 2002
• Only 15 engaged in and completed treatment
• Eligible offenses
• -PCS I II
• -STOP Failures

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Cognitive Change Skills

• Trained all staff
• Cognitive skills used in individual case
• management
• Classes/groups offered at all field offices

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Needs Assessments

• Criminogenic Factors
• Case Plan
• Action Plan
• Relationship building perspective

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Performance Evaluations

• New Audit process
• Appraisal measures redesign
• components and best practices
• components

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Community Justice Initiatives

• Restitution and Community Courts
• Collaboration and crime prevention
• 3 staff /3 neighborhoods

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Evaluate Redesign Research/Evaluation Unit

• Measure effectiveness
• Data driven system and budget decisions
• Contracts
• 1999 contract with NCCD to evaluate Phase I

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End of Presentation

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