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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• $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) 100

Total Adult 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

• 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

• Maine Reentry Network

• Jurisdiction Team Planning

• DHHS/DOC Mental Health Action Plan

• USM Justice Policy Centerhttp://muskie.usm.maine.edu/justiceresearch/