MAINE

Approximately 35,000 Square Miles Population of 1.3 million 16 Counties 32 Court Houses 14 County Jails 6 State Prisons 2 Juvenile Institutions 1 Reentry Center

Maine Pretrial Services

Maine Pretrial Services, Inc. (MPS), originally known as the Bail Project, has been in existence for more than thirty-five years. MPS was incorporated in 1983 under its current 501 c3 status.

MPS Mission Statement

Maine Pretrial Services, Inc. is a private, nonprofit agency committed to providing pretrial services, post conviction alternatives and diversion options throughout the state of Maine.

Agency Vision

We strive to embrace innovation and integrity while recognizing legal and evidence based practices in order to effectively and efficiently address the evolving needs of Maine’s criminal justice system.

A Chicken in Every Pot

With guidance from our board of directors, MPS has sought to provide services to criminal defendants in all of Maine’s 16 counties. Over the last 10 years the agency has evolved into its current configuration with a presence in 11 Maine counties.

Goals

To provide objective, comprehensive information to the court, prosecution, and defense regarding each in-custody defendant for use in the bail determination.

To provide effective community supervision and monitoring of court ordered conditions of release for all eligible defendants.

To reduce recidivism and promote appearance by collaborating effectively with community based resources for treatment, education, employment and housing.

Goals

To use an objective, validated risk assessment tool in conjunction with screening and verification processes on all in-custody defendants prior to initial appearance.

To appropriately consider the purpose of bail and the constitutional guarantees afforded to the accused when recommending conditions or combinations of conditions designed to ensure appearance while reducing risk of re offense for all in-custody defendants.

To address criminogenic factors in the criminal justice population by embracing principles of legal and evidence based practices such as motivational interviewing, objective risk assessment, and referral to evidence based treatment interventions for all defendants eligible for supervision.

MPS Programs

 Pretrial Release and Supervision  Adult Drug Court Case Management  Family Drug Court Case Management  Co-Occurring Court Case Management  Veterans Court Case Management  Reentry Case Management  Vocational and Housing Resource Case Management

Data Driven Performance Outcomes

 Outcomes based on Measuring What Matters  Web based Information System for data entry  Ability to produce routine “error reports”  Ability to run reports based on county, caseworker, program, specific date ranges  Seamless quality assurance

830 820 810 800 790 780 770 760

Weekly Data Snapshots

TOTAL PT

TOTAL 520 510 500 490 480 470 460 450 440 430 PT

1800 1750 1700 1650 1600 1900

Total Clients Served 2009-2012

Total Supervised-All Programs

1862 1850 1720 1771 1764 Total Supervised-All Programs 2009 2010 2011 2012

82 80 78 92 90 88 86 84 96 94

Average Length of Supervision

95 94 84 86 Average Length of Supervision 2009 2010 2011 2012

Year

170 000 165 000 160 000 155 000 150 000 145 000 140 000 135 000 130 000 144 775 2009

Bed Days Saved

167 411 165 706 160 970 2010 2011 2012 Bed Days Saved-All Programs

2000 1800 1600 1400 1200 1000 800 600 400 200 0 1720 1596 2009 124 1862 1734

Safety Rates

1771 1647 1764 1645 2010 128 2011 124 2012 119 Total Supervised No New Criminal Conduct New Criminal Conduct

2000 1800 1600 600 400 200 0 1400 1200 1000 800 1720 1713 2009 7

Appearance Rates

1868 1855 1771 1755 1764 1747 2010 13 2011 16 2012 17 Total Supervised Appeared for Court Failed to Appear

Pretrial Certification

Current and former staff are Certified Pretrial Professionals MPS instituted policy in 2008 that all Pretrial Staff become certified within the first year of employment Staff are required to attend a mandatory minimum number of continuing education hours in order to maintain CPC status.

Accreditation

      NAPSA Accreditation Committee selected Maine as a test site for roll out of new accreditation process Started process in fall of 2010.

Thorough review of policy and procedure vis a vis the pertinent NAPSA standards as adopted by Accreditation Committee.

Virtual, telephone, and in person meetings, followed by local site visits.

Local team led by Deputy Director, required management coordination Special thanks to Barbara Darby and Peter Kiers!!!

State Board of Corrections

 History-Governor’s Initiative: One Maine One System 2006  L.D. 2080-An Act to Better Coordinate and Reduce the Cost of the Delivery of the State and County Correctional Services  Passed as emergency legislation  Simultaneous with Correctional Alternative Advisory Committee (CAAC)(special legislative committee to the Governor’s Task Force on Criminal Justice).

 CAAC report included “Pretrial Case Processing” by Marie Van Nostrand, PhD.

BOC Mission and Goals

 Design, guide, and invest strategically in the development of a unified state and county corrections system and to maintain and manage the system in order to accomplish the following goals:  reduces recidivism  increases pretrial diversion and post conviction release  reduces the rate and use of incarceration  achieves efficiencies  reduces the rate of growth in the cost of corrections

BOC Responsibilities and Duties

 Manage the cost of corrections.  Determine correctional facility use and purpose.

 Adopt treatment standards and policies.  Certificate of need.  Administrative duties.  Receive and review recommendations.

BOC 2013-Blue Ribbon Commission

 “Jail Task Force” Commission to Study Board of Corrections  On heels of independent report by NIC  On heels of independent report by RH Smith audit  Another study to try and convince Mainers that our correctional system is broken?

 We knew that….but…….

Beginning of Bail Reform

 Testimony provided to Jail Task Force Commission regarding underutilization and misuse of pretrial services  Conversation followed regarding need for bail reform, involvement of bench and bar  Media opportunities  Anticipation of Arnold report (Van Nostrand and Lowenkamp)  Possibilities!!!!!!

Massachusetts Bail Reform

      Meetings scheduled for Maine Pretrial Services, NAPSA, and Pretrial Justice Institute: Presentations to Chief Justice and members of Pretrial Task Force of Massachusetts Presentations to Members of Massachusetts Commissions on Criminal Justice Presentations to Committee for Public Counsel Services/Public Defender Legislative presentations for members of Mass. Senate Public meeting for Advocacy Groups, interested public at Suffolk Law School