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Title: RE-ENTRY PROGRAMS AND RURAL JAILS


1
RE-ENTRY PROGRAMSAND RURAL JAILS
  • Frank R. Hecht
  • Corrections Administrator
  • Tohono Oodham Nation

2
RURAL/SMALL JAILS
  • An Overview
  • rural jails make up the majority of jails
  • resources and funding is limited
  • house federal inmates for funds
  • staffing is difficult
  • inmates poorly supervised
  • inmate/inmate aslt.

3
RURAL JAILS
  • STAFFING contd
  • suicide
  • challenges of healthcare/related issues
  • BUDGET
  • patrol vs jail
  • community expectations
  • RURAL CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM
  • lacks resources
  • slow adjudication process
  • lacks referral resources
  • cjs last to receive services

4
WHY REENTRY PROGRAMS?
  • Statistics
  • 1000 offenders added weekly
  • 2.6 increase from mid 2004/2005
  • 33,500 gain in jail offenders
  • Largest since 1997
  • 4.7 increase compared to 1.6 state/fed.prisons
  • 62 offenders in jail awaiting trial

5
WHY REENTRY PROGRAMS?
  • OPPORTUNITIES
  • Substance abuse
  • Limited/no education
  • Mental illness
  • Lack of housing
  • Lack of basic living skills
  • Gangs
  • The list goes onbut this equals OPPORTUNITES

6
WHY REENTRY PROGRAMS?
  • BENEFITS
  • Critical element of PUBLIC SAFETY
  • Need more research
  • Corrections facility
  • Community
  • Corrections Staff
  • Offenders Family

7
WHY REENTRY PROGRAMS?
  • PRE-RELEASE
  • Prepares offender
  • System wide approach
  • Reduces potential for conflict
  • Assists in successful adjudication
  • Provides for PUBLIC SAFETY
  • Prepares family and offender
  • Must start in the jail

8
TYPES OF RE-ENTRY PROGRAMS
  • PROGRAM DESIGN BASED UPON
  • Local resources
  • Community values/support
  • CJS priorities
  • Local community issues
  • Jail crowding/challenges
  • Funding
  • Offenders pop/characteristics

9
TYPES OF RE-ENTRY PROGRAMS
  • TYPES OF PROGRAMS
  • Work Release
  • Day Reporting/Resource Center
  • Pretrial Release Program
  • SERVICES OFFERED
  • Job Development
  • Literacy/GED
  • Family Preservation

10
TYPES OF RE-ENTRY PROGRAMS
  • SERVICES
  • Parenting
  • Substance Abuse
  • Gang Resistance/Education
  • Anger Management
  • Healthcare/HIV education
  • Drug testing
  • Mental Health screening/Med.Mgmnt.

11
TYPES OF RE-ENTRY PROGRAMS
  • ESSENTIAL COMPONENT
  • PUBLIC SAFETY
  • Accountability
  • Closely monitored
  • Telephonic
  • Field surv.
  • Scheduling
  • COMMUNICATION

12
DESIGN COMPONENTS
  • CRITICAL ELEMENTS
  • PARTNERSHIPS
  • Community Advisory Group
  • People support what they help create
  • Jail Liaison
  • Program Costs
  • Planning
  • Program Evaluation

13
DESIGN COMPONENTS
  • CRITICAL ELEMENTS
  • Funding
  • Regional Jails
  • Regional Re-entry/resource sharing
  • COLLABORATIONCOOPERATION
  • Provides for accountability
  • Maximization of resources
  • Accountability/Public safety
  • Without it there will be no support

14
DESIGN COMPONENTS
  • LIMITS
  • The only limits there are are those placed upon
  • Ourselves
  • Use your imagination
  • REMEMBER
  • You cant eat an elephant in one bite

15
INDIAN COUNTRY JAILS
  • INSPECTOR GENERALS REPORT
  • Bia remiss in meeting their responsibilities in
    providing safe and secure detention services
  • INDIAN COUNTRY JAILS
  • Majority rural/vastly rural/isolated
  • History of neglect/little-no funding

16
INDIAN COUNTRY JAILS
  • TYPES
  • Bureau/Tribal/PL-638 Operated
  • Adult and Juv. or combined
  • Share some of the same challenges as other rural
    jails across America
  • RE-ENTRY PROGRAMS
  • For the most part they dont exist
  • restorative justice model
  • NEED TO EDUCATE/ADVOCATE

17
RECOMMENDATIONS
  • CONDUCT RESEARCH/SURVEYS
  • AJA/NSA/ACA
  • EDUCATE
  • ASSOCIATION CONFERENCES
  • NATIONAL/LOCAL
  • STATE JUDICIARY MEETINGS
  • ASSOCIATION PUBLICATIONS
  • DOJ/NIC/BJA PUBLICATIONS

18
RECOMMENDATIONS
  • REGIONALIZATION
  • PROMOTE REGIONAL RESOURCE CENTERS
  • Include Indian Country Corrections

19
CONCLUSION
  • WE CANT JUST WAREHOUSE PEOPLE
  • REMEMBER
  • THE MOST SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE DONT HAVE THE BEST OF
    EVERYTHING
  • THEY MAKE THE BEST OF EVERYTHING THEY HAVE
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