Transcript Value of CJPA

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CJPA Presenters
• Karen Dalton, DrPH, CJM
Director, Offender Services Bureau
Los Angeles County Sheriff ’s Department
[email protected]
• M.J. Robb, MPA
Director, Support Services
Contra Costa County Sheriff ’s Office
[email protected]
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CJPA Presenters
• Cammie Noah, MPA
Inmate Programs and Services Manager
Sonoma County Sheriff ’s Office
[email protected]
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CJPA ~ California Jail
Programs Association
• Goal at inception & today, 27 years later,
remains the same
• Professionals united to create a voice for
inmate programs
• Share best practices
• Strength in numbers
• Reduce recidivism & depopulate jails
• Provide interventions for community
reintegration
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History of CJPA
• Organized in 1984
• Filed with State of California to obtain 501c3
status
• Created CJPA constitution and by-laws
• Established election of officers
• Implemented quarterly meeting structure
• Currently 32 counties represented; a few
hundred members
www.cjpa.net
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CJPA Constitution
• “To provide humane and decent conditions
essential to and compatible with the
management of safe and secure jail facilities”
• Assure adherence to jail oversight
standards
• Recognizes and supports the impact
programming can have on reducing
inmates tensions and stress
• Concurrently provide inmates constructive
options to make life changes
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Inmate Education Plan
• Provide for academic education and/or
vocational training programs for pretrial and
sentenced inmates
• California Penal Code, Sections 6030 &
4018.5
• Title 15, Article 6 – Minimum Standards for
Adult Local Detention Facilities
• California Education Code
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Title 15, Article 6
• Requires facilities provide
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Inmate education
Visiting
Correspondence
Library service
Recreational reading
Voting
Religious observances (RLUIPA)
Organization Members
• Inmate Programs, Support Services,
Operations, Administrative Services
(directors, managers, coordinators, staff, and
command staff)
• Recreational professionals
• Detention facility command and line staff
• Religious providers
• Non-profit and CBO partners
• Industry sponsors
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Role CJPA Plays
to Support Programs
• Centralized, comprehensive resource for all
counties
• CJPA designate at quarterly Corrections
Standards Authority meetings
• In 2011, CJPA member appointed on Title 15
Regulations Revisions Committee panel
• Tailors trainings to address all levels of
personnel working in jail programs, services,
and administration
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Benefits to Members
• Professional social structure
• Venues and avenues to exchange ideas
• Share/promote best practices
• Training by leading industry professionals
• Opportunities to educate legislators, media,
and the public about the positive interventions
implemented throughout the State
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Educational Involvement
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Shared Resources
• Eliminates reinventing the wheel
• Easily replication of successful programs
• Quick and easy List Serve
• On-site access to jail programs statewide via
quarterly meeting participation
• Promote successful programming
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AAT
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Vermiculture Program
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Training and Development
• Tailored to various areas of expertise
• State “regulations and standards”
presentation from CDCR at annual CJPA
conference
• National, state, and local experts participate
in and present at quarterly meetings
• Concise delivery of information regarding
goods/services from potential vendors
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Previous Training Topics
• Legal Issues & Religious Practices – Carrie
Hill, ESQ (Monterey County)
• Education Based Incarceration & Evaluating
Inmate Programs (Los Angeles County)
• “Manalive,” Violence Intervention and
Prevention Training – Hamish Sinclair (Santa
Cruz County)
• Bridging the Gap Between Programs and
Custody Staff – (San Bernardino County)
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More Training Topics
• Women in the Criminal Justice System –
Stephanie Covington, Ph.D. (Tulare County)
• Reducing Recidivism; Principles of Effective
Intervention – Ed Latessa, Ph.D. (LA County)
• Justice Reform, “Dreams of the Monster
Factory” – Sunny Schwartz, ESQ (Alameda
County)
• Gender Responsiveness & Promising Jail
Based Programs for Women Offenders –
Barbara Bloom, Ph.D. (Sonoma County)
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Pew Center on the States
• April 2011 report on recidivism and
value of behavioral interventions
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Risk/needs assessments
Case management
Transition planning/reentry strategy
Swift probation sanctions for violations
Research or evidenced-based programs
Creating incentives
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Successful Programming
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Overcoming Challenges
• Budget/economic issues and their fiscal impact
on programs and services
• Generate and maximize revenue streams
– Establishing jail industry programs
– Inmate work crews
– Developing and/or growing volunteer
programs to support paid program
instructors
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Overcoming Challenges
– Grant proposals in collaboration with justice
and community partners
– Consider increasing contracted like services,
such as legal research
– Utilizing existing personnel for organizational
cross training
– Engage community
– $$$ Diminishing budgets $$$
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PATHS – Mental Health
Program
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Community Support
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INMATE WELFARE FUND
INMATE SERVICES &
PROGRAMS
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Inmate Welfare Fund
• The IWF is regulated by:
– CA Penal Code Sections 4025 and 4026
• Commissary
• Inmate Vocational Programs
– Guidelines for use of revenue from these
sources
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Inmate Welfare Fund
• All services/programs are funded through
the INMATE WELFARE FUND (IWF)
• IWF is revenue collected from various
sources:
– Inmate telephone calls
– Commissions from commissary sales
– Sales of inmate industries products
– Misc. revenue – Court reimbursements for
pro-per phone calls; recycling
• NO TAX DOLLARS ARE USED!
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Program Funding:
Contra Costa County, CA
• FY 2009-10 IWF Budget - $1.7 million
• FY 2010-11 IWF Budget - $1.8 million
– Based on an ADP of 1,600
IWF Program Services is a division of the
Custody Services Bureau and all program
staff/volunteers work in collaboration with
custody staff
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Inmate Services
• In California, there are two legally
mandated services
– Legal services for pro-per inmates
– Religious services
• All other services – Discretionary
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WHAT PROGRAMS AND SERVICES
DOES THE
INMATE WELFARE FUND
PAY FOR?
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Inmate Services
• Legal Research: (Mandated)
– Legal Research Associates (LRA)
– Provides unlimited criminal, not civil*, legal
assistance to court-appointed, pro-per
inmates; limited to general population
* No civil issues unless mandated by law –
Habeas Corpus, Civil Rights - Confinement
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Inmate Services
– Request form in modules
• Inmate completes; gives to deputy;
deputy submits to CAS
• Documents returned within 72 hours
(pro-per policy)
• Responsiveness and access to
information reduces inmate stress
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Chaplain Services
(Mandated)
• Counseling
• Worship services
• Bible studies
• Marriage information for inmates
• Approve religious diets
• Provide requested reading materials
All services are INMATE DRIVEN
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Educational Classes
(Discretionary)
– Contra Costa County Office of Education
• GED and high school diploma prep
• Adult basic education
• DEUCE – drug and alcohol education
• Computer applications
• Parenting
• ESL – English as a Second Language
• Literacy (collaboration with libraries)
• Transitional services
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GED
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Vocational Classes
(Discretionary)
• Woodshop
• Inmate industries
– Engraving, Signage (including Braille),
Vinyl, and Vehicle Decaling
• Picture framing
• Landscaping
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Agency Services
(Discretionary)
• AA and NA
• Domestic Violence
• Veteran Affairs
• SSI/Homeless Cooperative
• Anger Management
• Child Protective Services
• Child Support Services
• UC Davis Immigration Law Clinic
• Women of Worth (WOW)
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Inmate Services
• Library Services
– Provide inmates information
• Community programs
• Published information from phone book
• Limited copies of non-legal information
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IWF Provides
– Newspapers
– TVs
• Direct TV
Services
• Movie Rentals
– Equipment
Repairs
– DVD/VCR Players
– Electric Razors
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– Bus/BART Tickets
– Sports Equipment
– Inmate Rewards
• Soda, Candy,
Popcorn
– Hair Trimmers
– Nail Clippers
– Disinfectant Spray
INTERNAL & EXTERNAL
IMPACTS
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Buy -In
• Develop & solidify relationships
– Includes command/line/programs staff and
volunteer providers
– Overwhelming support from CA Sheriff ’s
– Promote agency transparency – invite the
community inside
– Provide safety/security training bi-annually
to all providers
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Local Reentry
• Tasked by federal and state governments to
assume increased responsibility
– Realignment of state inmates to local level
– Provide EBP interventions for state
prisoners
– Facilities contracting for state prisoners to
boost agency revenues
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Collaboration with CBOs
• Creating/strengthening programs with clearly
defined reintegration links
– In-custody → Probation → Community
– Implement risk assessment tool and apply
targeted interventions to the high risk-toreoffend
– Inmate case management
– Exit planning
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Quarterly Training
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Criminal Justice Planning
• Apply alternative diversionary programs
• Initiate day reporting centers or community
correction service center
• Develop Education & Employment Program
– Napa’s outcome is an 85% employment rate
• Institute an Education Based Incarceration
plan
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State Budget Impacts
• Fiscal impact on local budgets
• Collaboration, consensus building,
partnerships key to success
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Join CJPA
www.cjpa.net
$25 annually for non-voting member
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