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Proposed Workload Budget
Implementation of AB 900
In May of 2007, the Governor signed AB 900 (Chapter 7, Statutes of 2007), also known as the Public Safety and Offender Rehabilitation Services Act of 2007, which provided $7.3 billion in lease revenue bond financing to add 53,000 prison, reentry, and jail beds in two phases, and fundamentally shifts how the CDCR approaches rehabilitation for California's prisoners. AB 900 also appropriated $50 million General Fund for additional rehabilitative programming activities and $300 million General Fund to make infrastructure improvements at state prisons. The Budget proposes a total of $2.5 million in 2007-08 and $35.4 million in 2008-09 to implement the rehabilitation components of AB 900. Of this amount, $2.5 million in 2007-08 and $31.4 million in 2008-09 is funded from the AB 900 appropriation, consistent with the requirements of SB 81 (Chapter 175, Statutes of 2007).
REHABILITATION STRIKE TEAM AND PATHWAYS TO REHABILITATION
Following the enactment of AB 900, the Governor convened a Rehabilitation Strike Team charged with evaluating existing education, training and substance abuse programs; exploring ways that services can best be delivered to inmates and parolees in order to improve public safety; and putting into action rehabilitative programming recommendations made by the Expert Panel on Corrections Reform in accordance with the performance benchmarks mandated in AB 900. The Budget includes $5 million for a comprehensive integrative case management demonstration project which will showcase the pathway of rehabilitative programming for a group of inmates. A full continuum of assessment and rehabilitative programming will begin with an initial risk and needs assessment in the reception center at intake. A comprehensive assessment will be conducted at the general population level to determine needs-based programming, and intensive programming efforts will continue within prisons and reentry centers up to the time of release. Aftercare and follow-up will be provided by CDCR's partners in the community to maximize opportunities for successful reintegration.
INMATE RISK AND NEEDS ASSESSMENTS INCLUDING CLASSIFICATION SERVICES
AB 900 requires the CDCR to implement an inmate assessment at reception centers, and use the assessment to assign inmates to rehabilitation programs. The 2007 Budget Act includes $4.7 million for the CDCR to implement risk and needs assessments at reception centers. Building upon the Department's current efforts to meet the mandates of AB 900, the Governor's Budget includes an additional $483,000 General Fund in 2007-08 and $5.2 million General Fund in 2008-09 to continue the implementation of the risk and needs assessments at reception, and to create behavior management plans for inmates identified as a high risk to recidivate.
SUBSTANCE ABUSE TREATMENT EXPANSION
AB 900 requires the CDCR to expand substance abuse treatment services in prisons to accommodate at least 4,000 additional inmates who have histories of substance abuse. To meet this mandate, the Governor's Budget includes $308,000 General Fund in 2007-08 and $8.1 million General Fund in 2008-09 to provide evidence-based substance abuse treatment services for 2,000 inmates and continuing care for 1,330 parolees. This augmentation will fund the first phase of the 4,000-bed expansion, and provide an additional 2,000 in-custody treatment slots, continuing care, and training for the substance abuse staff.
REHABILITATION STAFF SKILLS TRAINING
The Governor's Budget includes $1.4 million General Fund in 2007-08 and $5.4 million General Fund in 2008-09 to provide training on effective rehabilitation, cognitive behavioral intervention, interviewing, and other skills to approximately 1,900 prison staff who will provide specific communication skills and techniques designed to reduce offender resistance, increase offender motivation to change, and reduce individual criminal risk. The CDCR will begin by training existing staff at reception centers that are directly responsible for administering the risk and needs assessments. During those initial training sessions, the CDCR will also train new correctional counselors to serve as department-wide trainers, who will then travel the state in teams and train staff at all the institutions. Ultimately, this rehabilitation training will be added to the academies where it will be required for all participants.
DAY TREATMENT AND CRISIS CARE SERVICES FOR MENTALLY ILL PAROLEES
AB 900 requires the CDCR to obtain day treatment, and to contract for crisis care services, for parolees with mental health problems. To meet this mandate, the Governor's Budget includes $6 million General Fund for the CDCR's Division of Adult Parole Operations to enhance mental health rehabilitative and stabilization services initiated under the Department's Reducing Recidivism Strategies. This augmentation will expand services and provide more intensive treatment for severely mentally ill parolees who currently receive outpatient services through the Parole Outpatient Clinics. The CDCR will work with county providers to ensure that parolees receive the necessary services when in mental health crisis, and can step-down to the day treatment programming or other care services as appropriate.
ADULT PROGRAMS REALIGNMENT AND OFFICE OF RESEARCH FUNDING
The Governor's Budget includes $301,000 General Fund in 2007-08 and $4.7 million General Fund in 2008-09 to provide critical program infrastructure so that the CDCR can meet the AB 900 mandates and more fully integrate rehabilitative programming into the correctional setting. This augmentation will provide funding for the newly-established Office of Program and Policy Development, facilitate and implement the Prison-to-Employment Plan, staff the newly established Local Government Liaison Unit, and provide staffing for the new Office of the Undersecretary for Adult Programs. This augmentation also funds enterprise data system enhancements and expansion of data analysis and reporting capacity and capability to effectively implement the mandates for rehabilitation programming.
EDFIRST
The Governor's Budget includes $961,000 General Fund in 2008-09 to implement the Education for Inmates Reporting and Statewide Tracking project (EdFIRST). EdFIRST is an information technology system that will store inmate educational files and data electronically. This system will provide the CDCR an electronic means to track student participation, progress, and achievement, and replace the existing manual system. EdFIRST will also allow the CDCR to more effectively manage and report on educational participation and progress.
SECURE REENTRY FACILITIES
The Governor's Budget includes $727,000 General Fund in 2007-08 and $1.1 million General Fund in 2008-09 to establish the pre-activation team for the new reentry facility in Stockton, authorized by Chapter 228, Statutes of 2007 (SB 943). This augmentation will allow the Department to conduct a site assessment to identify renovation and construction needs, identify the population for the reentry facility, identify the appropriate staffing criteria for the facility, design reentry programs and services, engage in ongoing communication and participation with local stakeholders, and establish contracts with community providers.
The Governor's Budget also includes $2.5 million General Fund in 2008-09 to contract with the San Francisco County Sheriff's Office to provide twelve months of intensive, in-custody reentry programming, followed by twelve months of accountability-based, out-of-custody reentry programming.
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