The California Prison Industry Authority and California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, Office of Correctional Safety invite you to attend the grand opening and ribbon cutting for the Emergency Operations Training Center on Thursday, May 23, 2013 from 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM at the Green Valley Training Center 995 Folsom Lake Crossing, Folsom 95630.
Attendees will have an opportunity to view CALPIA's latest development in modular building solutions that are designed to support emergency incident management teams. For complete details, please visit: http://www.calpia.ca.gov/pdf/Public_Affairs/2013-May/Emergency-Operations-Training.pdf
Tuesday, May 7, 2013
Friday, May 3, 2013
Press release from the California State Association of Counties
Read more about the California State Association of Counties statement released today in response to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation filing a plan to further reduce the prison population in accordance with a court order.
http://www.cdcr.ca.gov/News/docs/3JP-May-2013/Finigan-Statement-CDCR-Filing-50313.pdf
http://www.cdcr.ca.gov/News/docs/3JP-May-2013/Finigan-Statement-CDCR-Filing-50313.pdf
Press release from the Chief Probation Officers of California
Chief Probation Offices of California Responds to Governor Brown's Filing of the Prison Population Reduction Plan. To read more please visit the following link:
http://www.cdcr.ca.gov/News/docs/3JP-May-2013/CPOC-Responds-to-Filing-of-Prison-Population-Reduc-Plan.pdf
Tuesday, October 30, 2012
New Report Shows Recidivism Rate Continues to Decline
From a CDCR press release issued yesterday, October 29, 2012:
The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) today released the 2012 Outcome Evaluation Report, the third in a series of annual reports tracking the recidivism rates of adult offenders released from state prison. The report shows that recidivism rates have declined for the second straight year.
The focus of the 2012 report are the inmates released from CDCR during fiscal year 2007-08, a pivotal year when CDCR began using risk and needs assessments to better rehabilitate and supervise its offender population. These inmates had a 63.7 percent three-year recidivism rate, down from 65.1 percent the year before. They also committed 1,450 fewer crimes than those released the year before, despite being a larger group of inmates.
“We’re pleased to see that recidivism rates are improving and that the reforms we undertook in 2007 and 2008 are working,” CDCR Secretary Matthew Cate said.
In 2007 CDCR began using the Correctional Offender Management Profiling for Alternative Sanctions (COMPAS) and the next year began using the California Static Risk Assessment (CSRA) and the Parole Violation Decision Making Instrument (PVDMI).
COMPAS is a research-based risk and needs assessment tool used by CDCR in the placement, supervision and case management of offenders. It helps CDCR staff assign the right inmates to the right programs at the right time based on individual risk and needs assessments, reducing the likelihood of reoffending. All inmates are assessed using COMPAS before their release from prison. The report finds that, of those inmates with a substance abuse need as identified by COMPAS, those who receive in-prison substance abuse treatment and aftercare recidivate at less than half the rate of those who receive neither (30.7 percent compared to 62.7 percent, respectively).
CDCR partnered with the University of California, Irvine, to create a validated risk assessment tool to inform decision-making for parolees. The CSRA is a 22-item actuarial risk prediction instrument that predicts the likelihood to recidivate and moved CDCR from the use of an offense-based system. The report finds that the CSRA performs well at predicting the risk for recidivism.
The PVDMI, launched statewide in November 2008, assesses a parolee’s risk for recidivism as calculated by the CSRA and the severity of the parole violation, based on a severity index, to determine a consistent and appropriate response to the violation. Since the implementation of the PVDMI, fewer parolees have been returned to prison.
The report also contains a new section on the Prison University Project at San Quentin State Prison, a college program that began in 1996. Inmates who graduated from the program had a very low rate of recidivism after one year out of prison, as compared to a matched comparison group of similar inmates (5.4 percent compared to 21.2 percent, respectively).
In fiscal year 2007-08, 116,015 people were released or re-released from state prison. The in-depth 2012 report focuses on the 73,885 inmates who returned to prison within three years of release. It also looks at demographics, including gender, age, ethnicity, sentence, length of stay, mental health status, and other factors. CDCR measures recidivism by arrests, convictions and returns to prison and uses the latter measure – returns to prison – as its primary measure of recidivism. CDCR’s return-to-prison measure includes offenders released from prison after having served their sentence for a crime as well as offenders released from prison after having served their term for a parole violation.
Future reports will monitor how the implementation of realignment legislation impacts recidivism.
The 2012 Outcome Evaluation Report is published by CDCR’s Office of Research, which provides research data analysis and evaluation to implement evidence-based programs and practices, strengthen policy, inform management decisions and ensure accountability.
To view the entire report, please visit http://www.cdcr.ca.gov/Adult_Research_Branch/Research_Documents/ARB_FY_0708_Recidivism_Report_10.23.12.pdf
Thursday, April 26, 2012
April 2012 Newsletter
Transition celebration marks new beginning for CDCR parolees in Stockton
CDCR’s Division of Adult Parole Operation (DAPO) and BI Incorporated hosted a transition celebration recently for 22 offenders who successfully completed this intensive criminal justice program. BI Incorporated is the operator of an innovative community-based program for parolees in Stockton.
The goals of the programs at the Stockton Day Reporting Center (DRC) include reducing the prison population by diverting individuals to community supervision, and helping clients stay crime-free once released. Many of these graduates entered the DRC after violating conditions of parole. All graduates are either employed of enrolled in community college.
CDCR releases report, The Future of California Corrections: A blueprint to save billions of dollars, end federal court oversight and improve the prison system
In the wake of a declining prison population resulting from Realignment, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) today released a plan to cut billions in spending, comply with multiple federal court orders for inmate medical, mental health and dental care, and significantly improve the operation of California’s prison system. The plan is titled “The Future of California Corrections: A Blueprint to Save Billions of Dollars, End Federal Oversight, and Improve the Prison System.”
“My goal is to end federal court oversight of medical, mental health and dental care by next year,” said CDCR Secretary Matthew Cate. “This plan builds on the improvements made possible by Realignment. It will go a long way towards making our correctional system more efficient and secure and, at the same time, lower our high recidivism rates.”
CDCR’s plan will:
This plan ends a long-term uptick in corrections costs. CDCR accounted for just three percent of General Fund spending 30 years ago, which increased to 11 percent in FY 2008-09. CDCR’s plan will lower it to 7.5 percent in FY 2015-16. When realignment is fully implemented, CDCR expenditures will drop by 18 percent overall.
CDCR has responded to a string of class-action lawsuits dating back to 1990 challenging the levels of medical, mental health and dental care for inmates. In 2006, federal courts appointed a federal court-appointed Receiver to bring health care up to constitutional standards. Mental health care is overseen by a Special Master and dental care is monitored by Court Experts.
“CDCR has made substantial progress in assuring the courts that it is providing Constitutionally-mandated levels of care to inmates,” said Cate. “We are committed to ending federal oversight of our prisons’ healthcare systems.”
The courts have indicated that California is making vast improvements and is on track to end the Receivership. Earlier this year, a federal judge cited “significant progress” in medical care delivery and wrote that “the end of the Receivership appears to be in sight.” The court also called for negotiations to take place on returning health care authority to CDCR.
Similar progress is being made in other aspects of prison health care. Mental health bed waiting lists that were once hundreds of patients long have fallen sharply or been eliminated. Dental care has improved markedly as well, with 30 out of 33 prisons having passed audits of their dental program and the remainder expected to pass soon.
Many of the improvements are due to the reduction in prison overcrowding made possible by Public Safety Realignment signed into law by Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. last year.
Since Public Safety Realignment took effect, CDCR’s offender population has dropped by approximately 22,000 inmates and 16,000 parolees. Overcrowding has been reduced from a high of more than 200 percent of design capacity to just 155 percent today. The thousands of makeshift beds in gymnasiums and dayrooms that CDCR had been forced to use for years are now gone.
“Realignment has given California a historic opportunity to invest in a prison system that is not just less crowded, but more efficient, while saving billions of state taxpayer dollars,” said Cate.
CDCR’s spring population projections suggest that the department may fall just short of meeting the final court-ordered crowding-reduction benchmark. In June 2013, the department’s prison population is projected to be at 141 percent of design capacity rather than the 137.5 percent goal set by the federal Three-Judge Court and affirmed by the Supreme Court. The measures proposed in this plan will allow the state to seek and obtain a modification of the order to raise the final benchmark to 145 percent of design capacity. In its order, the Supreme Court anticipated this as a possibility and said the state “will be free to move” the court for modification.
“We are confident that this plan will satisfy the court’s order,” said Cate.
To read or download a copy of the plan “The Future of California Corrections: A Blueprint to Save Billions of Dollars, End Federal Oversight, and Improve the Prison System”, go to www.cdcr.ca.gov.
The goals of the programs at the Stockton Day Reporting Center (DRC) include reducing the prison population by diverting individuals to community supervision, and helping clients stay crime-free once released. Many of these graduates entered the DRC after violating conditions of parole. All graduates are either employed of enrolled in community college.
CDCR releases report, The Future of California Corrections: A blueprint to save billions of dollars, end federal court oversight and improve the prison system
“My goal is to end federal court oversight of medical, mental health and dental care by next year,” said CDCR Secretary Matthew Cate. “This plan builds on the improvements made possible by Realignment. It will go a long way towards making our correctional system more efficient and secure and, at the same time, lower our high recidivism rates.”
CDCR’s plan will:
- Reduce CDCR’s annual budget by more than $1.5 billion upon full implementation, including $160 million dollars in savings from closing the California Rehabilitation Center;
- Eliminate $4.1 billion in construction projects that are no longer needed because of population reductions;
- Eliminate $2.2 billion annually that would have been spent had Realignment not been implemented;
- Return all out-of-state inmates to California by 2016 to bring back jobs and manage offenders closer to home while saving millions in taxpayer dollars;
- Satisfy the U.S. Supreme Court’s order to lower the state’s prison population;
- Satisfy the federal courts that CDCR has achieved and maintained constitutional levels of medical, mental health and dental care to avoid costly oversight;
- Incorporate a standardized staffing formula to better manage staff levels and cost;
- Improve the classification system to provide proper inmate housing placement and reduce the reliance on costly high-security facilities.
This plan ends a long-term uptick in corrections costs. CDCR accounted for just three percent of General Fund spending 30 years ago, which increased to 11 percent in FY 2008-09. CDCR’s plan will lower it to 7.5 percent in FY 2015-16. When realignment is fully implemented, CDCR expenditures will drop by 18 percent overall.
CDCR has responded to a string of class-action lawsuits dating back to 1990 challenging the levels of medical, mental health and dental care for inmates. In 2006, federal courts appointed a federal court-appointed Receiver to bring health care up to constitutional standards. Mental health care is overseen by a Special Master and dental care is monitored by Court Experts.
The courts have indicated that California is making vast improvements and is on track to end the Receivership. Earlier this year, a federal judge cited “significant progress” in medical care delivery and wrote that “the end of the Receivership appears to be in sight.” The court also called for negotiations to take place on returning health care authority to CDCR.
Similar progress is being made in other aspects of prison health care. Mental health bed waiting lists that were once hundreds of patients long have fallen sharply or been eliminated. Dental care has improved markedly as well, with 30 out of 33 prisons having passed audits of their dental program and the remainder expected to pass soon.
Many of the improvements are due to the reduction in prison overcrowding made possible by Public Safety Realignment signed into law by Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. last year.
Since Public Safety Realignment took effect, CDCR’s offender population has dropped by approximately 22,000 inmates and 16,000 parolees. Overcrowding has been reduced from a high of more than 200 percent of design capacity to just 155 percent today. The thousands of makeshift beds in gymnasiums and dayrooms that CDCR had been forced to use for years are now gone.
“Realignment has given California a historic opportunity to invest in a prison system that is not just less crowded, but more efficient, while saving billions of state taxpayer dollars,” said Cate.
CDCR’s spring population projections suggest that the department may fall just short of meeting the final court-ordered crowding-reduction benchmark. In June 2013, the department’s prison population is projected to be at 141 percent of design capacity rather than the 137.5 percent goal set by the federal Three-Judge Court and affirmed by the Supreme Court. The measures proposed in this plan will allow the state to seek and obtain a modification of the order to raise the final benchmark to 145 percent of design capacity. In its order, the Supreme Court anticipated this as a possibility and said the state “will be free to move” the court for modification.
“We are confident that this plan will satisfy the court’s order,” said Cate.
To read or download a copy of the plan “The Future of California Corrections: A Blueprint to Save Billions of Dollars, End Federal Oversight, and Improve the Prison System”, go to www.cdcr.ca.gov.
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
CDCR Releases Plan to Cut Billions in Prison Spending and Meet Federal Court Mandates
Federal health-care
oversight should end by 2013
SACRAMENTO – In the wake
of a declining prison population resulting from Realignment, the California
Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) today released a plan to cut
billions in spending, comply with multiple federal court orders for inmate
medical, mental health and dental care, and significantly improve the operation
of California’s prison system. The plan is titled “The Future of California
Corrections: A Blueprint to Save Billions of Dollars, End Federal Oversight, and
Improve the Prison System.”
“My goal is to end
federal court oversight of medical, mental health and dental care by next year,”
said CDCR Secretary Matthew Cate. “This plan builds on the improvements made
possible by Realignment. It will go a long way towards making our correctional
system more efficient and secure and, at the same time, lower our high
recidivism rates.”
CDCR’s plan
will:
· Reduce CDCR’s annual budget by more than $1.5 billion upon full implementation, including $160 million dollars in savings from closing the California Rehabilitation Center;
· Eliminate $4.1 billion in construction projects that are no longer needed because of population reductions;
· Eliminate $2.2 billion annually that would have been spent had Realignment not been implemented;
· Return all out-of-state inmates to California by 2016 to bring back jobs and manage offenders closer to home while saving millions in taxpayer dollars;
· Satisfy the U.S. Supreme Court’s order to lower the state’s prison population;
· Satisfy the federal courts that CDCR has achieved and maintained constitutional levels of medical, mental health and dental care to avoid costly oversight;
· Incorporate a standardized staffing formula to better manage staff levels and cost;
· Improve the classification system to provide proper inmate housing placement and reduce the reliance on costly high-security facilities.
This plan ends a long-term uptick in corrections costs. CDCR accounted for just three percent of General Fund spending 30 years ago, which increased to 11 percent in FY 2008-09. CDCR’s plan will lower it to 7.5 percent in FY 2015-16. When realignment is fully implemented, CDCR expenditures will drop by 18 percent overall.
CDCR has responded to a
string of class-action lawsuits dating back to 1990 challenging the levels of
medical, mental health and dental care for inmates. In 2006, federal courts
appointed a federal court-appointed Receiver to bring health care up to
constitutional standards. Mental health care is overseen by a Special Master and
dental care is monitored by Court Experts.
“CDCR has made
substantial progress in assuring the courts that it is providing
Constitutionally-mandated levels of care to inmates,” said Cate. “We are
committed to ending federal oversight of our prisons’ healthcare
systems.”
The courts have
indicated that California is making vast improvements and is on track to end the
Receivership. Earlier this year, a federal judge cited “significant progress” in
medical care delivery and wrote that “the end of the Receivership appears to be
in sight.” The court also called for negotiations to take place on returning
health care authority to CDCR.
Similar progress is
being made in other aspects of prison health care. Mental health bed waiting
lists that were once hundreds of patients long have fallen sharply or been
eliminated. Dental care has improved markedly as well, with 30 out of 33 prisons
having passed audits of their dental program and the remainder expected to pass
soon.
Many of the improvements
are due to the reduction in prison overcrowding made possible by Public Safety
Realignment signed into law by Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. last year.
Since Public Safety
Realignment took effect, CDCR’s offender population has dropped by approximately
22,000 inmates and 16,000 parolees. Overcrowding has been reduced from a high of
more than 200 percent of design capacity to just 155 percent today. The
thousands of makeshift beds in gymnasiums and dayrooms that CDCR had been forced
to use for years are now gone.
“Realignment has given
California a historic opportunity to invest in a prison system that is not just
less crowded, but more efficient, while saving billions of state taxpayer
dollars,” said Cate.
CDCR’s spring population
projections suggest that the department may fall just short of meeting the final
court-ordered crowding-reduction benchmark. In June 2013, the department’s
prison population is projected to be at 141 percent of design capacity rather
than the 137.5 percent goal set by the federal Three-Judge Court and affirmed by
the Supreme Court. The measures proposed in this plan will allow the state to
seek and obtain a modification of the order to raise the final benchmark to 145
percent of design capacity. In its order, the Supreme Court anticipated this as
a possibility and said the state “will be free to move” the court for
modification.
“We are confident that
this plan will satisfy the court’s order,” said Cate.
To read or download a
copy of the plan “The Future of California Corrections: A Blueprint to Save
Billions of Dollars, End Federal Oversight, and Improve the Prison System”,
go to www.cdcr.ca.gov.
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FOR IMMEDIATE
RELEASE
April 23,
2012
Contact: Jeffrey
Callison
(916) 445-4950
(916) 445-4950
Thursday, March 29, 2012
Executive Assignment Changes
After two years with the department, Darby Kernan, Assistant Secretary of Legislation, has accepted a position with the California State Senate working for Senator Darrell Steinberg on public safety issues. Aaron McGuire will be replacing her effective April 2, 2012. Mr. McGuire’s previous assignment was working in Governor Brown’s Administration as deputy legislative secretary.
On March 28th, the retirement of Richard Subia, Director of the Division of Adult Institutions (DAI), was announced. Mr. Subia has been with CDCR for many years and has shown true leadership and dedication to the department. Replacing him in an acting capacity will be Kathleen Dickinson, Deputy Director of Facility Support - DAI. Ms. Dickinson has worked for the department since 1984, previously serving as warden at the California Medical Facility.
Lastly, Terri McDonald has been appointed Undersecretary of Operations, where she has served as acting undersecretary since the departure of Scott Kernan in October 2011. Ms. McDonald has served with CDCR in various positions since 1988. She was chief deputy secretary of adult operations from 2009 to 2011; associate director of reception centers from 2007 to 2009; chief for the out-of-state correctional facilities from 2006 to 2007; correctional administrator from 2004 to 2006; correctional captain at Folsom State Prison and the California Medical Facility from 2001 to 2004; correctional lieutenant and correctional sergeant at the California Medical Facility from 1993 to 2001; and correctional officer at the California Medical Facility and the Sierra Conservation Center from 1988 to 1993.
On March 28th, the retirement of Richard Subia, Director of the Division of Adult Institutions (DAI), was announced. Mr. Subia has been with CDCR for many years and has shown true leadership and dedication to the department. Replacing him in an acting capacity will be Kathleen Dickinson, Deputy Director of Facility Support - DAI. Ms. Dickinson has worked for the department since 1984, previously serving as warden at the California Medical Facility.
Lastly, Terri McDonald has been appointed Undersecretary of Operations, where she has served as acting undersecretary since the departure of Scott Kernan in October 2011. Ms. McDonald has served with CDCR in various positions since 1988. She was chief deputy secretary of adult operations from 2009 to 2011; associate director of reception centers from 2007 to 2009; chief for the out-of-state correctional facilities from 2006 to 2007; correctional administrator from 2004 to 2006; correctional captain at Folsom State Prison and the California Medical Facility from 2001 to 2004; correctional lieutenant and correctional sergeant at the California Medical Facility from 1993 to 2001; and correctional officer at the California Medical Facility and the Sierra Conservation Center from 1988 to 1993.
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