Criminal Justice Partnership

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Criminal Justice Partnership

• A Different View
• 2007

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The Criminal Justice Partnership Act Was Designed
to Achieve the Following

• To implement recommendations of the NC Sentencing
  and Policy Advisory Commission by providing
  community corrections programs which
  appropriately punish criminal behavior and which
  offer rehabilitative opportunities.
• To expand sentencing options for courts
• To promote coordination between State and county
  community corrections programs
• To improve public confidence in community based
  punishments

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Historical Highlights

• 1995 First CJP Programs become operational
• 1998 All DOC CJPP staff are moved under the
  supervision of DCC Each of the four DCC
  Divisions have a Community Development Specialist
  (CDS) AKACJPP Coordinator to work with
  counties within that Division
• 02/03 State budget crisis CJPP funding was at
  risk funding greatly reduced66 of the
  programs close for some period of time
• 03/04 A REBOUNDING YEAR with the majority of
  the CJPP REOPENING

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Who Is Eligible for CJPP ?

• Intermediate Offenders
• Including Community Offenders that have violated
  their probation and have been sanctioned to
  Intermediate supervision
• Post Release and Parole Offenders
• DWI offenders are NOT eligible

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What if?

• You woke up tomorrow morning and suddenly
• There was NO Criminal Justice Partnership
  Program.
• What would that mean to you?
• To Offenders?
• To Probation Officers in DCC?
• To the state of NC?

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The numbersfor one year alone up to April(FY
06-07)

• 5859 men, women, young and old, Blacks, Whites,
  Hispanics, Asians, and Indians would be on the
  street or in prison at a huge cost to NC
  taxpayers
• 5003 people would NOT receive individual and
  group TX for substance abuse
• 2683 people would NOT learn new ways of thinking
  and behaving through CBI

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More

• Another 162 people would NOT receive help for
  Domestic Violence and Family Counseling
• About 55 would NOT benefit from Parenting skills
  -- nor would their children
• More than 2700 would NOT learn basic Life Skills
• More than 5000 would NOT receive their GED or
  take Adult Education classes

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Those needing the most help

• Nearly 230 people would NOT enter into
  residential TX
• AND
• A total of 36,368 service hours would be LOST
• in one year alone.

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Most Important

• 1586 men and women
• WOULD NOT HAVE SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETED the CJP
  PROGRAM in 2006-07
• becoming productive residents who benefited
  themselves, their families, and the citizens of
  North Carolina
• Leaving another 2377 still active in the programs
  today

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Types of Programs

• Day Reporting Centers
• Resource Centers
• Satellite Substance Abuse Programs
• Other services include and not limited to
  Anger management, GED, ABE, Vocational training,
  Job Development and Retention, Cognitive
  Behavioral Intervention, Parenting, Life Skills,
  Budgeting, HIV/Aids Awareness, Fatherhood
  Programs, Sex offender services, Domestic
  Violence and Residential Services.
• (Services provided by CJPP staff or other
  agencies in the community)

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Benefits of CJPP to the community and the Offender

• Saves money to local communities for jail and
  prison cost avoidance
• Offenders are able to gain or maintain employment
  while participating in the program
• Addresses drug and alcohol dependencies, provide
  the tools the offenders need to stay clean and
  reduce cost associated with substance abuse.
• Provides an array of services to address the
  offenders needs to make changes in their lives
• Provides a continuum of care for outpatient
  services substance abuse services prior to
  residential
• Reduction in crime by treating the situation
  proactively
• Can improve education levels of the community

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Officers CJPP staff asked if CJJP was no longer
available what would be the effect?

• It would impact in so many different ways, from
  removing a vital part of the violation process
  from Probation to eliminating the partnerships we
  have with community agencies and resources.
  Brent Whitener, CPPO
• This program eliminates the reasons/excuses for
  not seeking needed TX. Rusty Huffman, PPOIII
• I would personally see it as NC taking at least
  a 20-year step backward and a failure of the
  legislators to recognize the potential of
  community corrections. DRC Director

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The net effect

• Through united efforts between TASC and CJPP,
  our communities are safer and our clients are
  receiving TX. We need CJPP! TASC Care Manager
• Without CJPP, the impact would be swift. Clients
  now in the DRC would be back in custody. And
  their families would lose hope for their loved
  one to join them as a sober, committed family
  member. Cynthia Barcklow, County manager asst.
• As a Probation officer, the loss of CJPP would
  be devastating especially since about 99.5 of
  our offenders have a Substance Abuse problem.
  Karen Long, PPO

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And finally

• If the CJP Program ended, our county would have
  to figure out how to deal with the scores of
  offenders already struggling in a bad mental
  health system. Jessica Wagner, PPO
• Almost all our female offenders would fall by
  the wayside. Joey King, PPO
• When I think of losing CJPP I think of losing
• A parent spending time with their child instead
  of time in jail
• A father coming home after work
• A person making a friend who does not use drugs
• Someone getting a paycheck for an honest days
  work
• A family working out a problem Jerry Jackson,
  JDM

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Ninety-three (93) Counties now have CJP Programs
and (83) Programs