emerging issues & trends asca new director’s training march 31 – april 3, 2011
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EMERGING ISSUES & TRENDS ASCA NEW DIRECTOR’S TRAINING MARCH 31 – APRIL 3, 2011
EMERGING ISSUES
WHAT WERE THEY IN THE LAST FEW YEARS?
WHAT IS LIKELY TO BE CARRIED FORWARD?
CAN WE ANTICIPATE THEM?
CAN WE CONTROL THEM?
Transgender Offender
Medication Therapy
Webb Commission
Interstate Parole Compact
Privatization
Community Work Programs
Staff Furloughs & Layoffs
Sentencing Reform
Aging Offenders
Sex Offender Parolees
PREA Standards
Medical Costs
Mentall Ill Offenders
State Budgets
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100
OTHER ISSUES
RISK /NEEDS ASSESSMENT RADICALIZATION GANGS CHILDREN OF INCARCERATED
PERSONS VIDEO VISITING DUAL DISORDER
OTHER ISSUES
RE-ENRTY HATE CRIMES DWI CRIMES UNION BUSTING (WISCONSEN EFFECT) RELIGIOUS RIGHTS GENDER SPECIFIC TREATMEN / WOMEN RESEARCH BASED PRACTICES ETHICS REFORM / IMPACT ON AGECNCY
LEVEL OF ISSUES
NATIONAL RADICALIZATION CELL PHONE SECOND CHANCE / RE-ENTRY
STATE BUDGET LAYOFFS & WAGE FREEZES
LOCAL CLOSURE EXPANSION NEWSPAPER ARTICLES
ORIGIN OF ISSUES
WHAT IS THE GOVERNOR’S CRIMINAL JUSTICE OR CORRECTIONAL AND PAROLE PROGRAMS AGENDA? WHAT IF HE/SHE DOES NOT HAVE ONE?
WHAT IS THE AGENDAS COMING OUT OF THE LEGIISLATURE? SENATE AND ASSEMBLY MAY NOT BE ON
THE SAME PAGE
EMERGING ISSUES / PERSONAL
WHAT IS UNIQUE IN MY STATE?
WHO CONTROLS THE LEGIISLATURE?
WHO ARE THE ADVOCATES AND WHAT DO THEY WANT?
WHO ARE THE CRITICS AND WHAT IS THEIR AGENDA?
HEADLINES DICTATE POLICY Ex-Convicts in Texas Owe Millions for College Courses,
Lawmakers Say - March 23, 2011 Some Texas lawmakers are suggesting that a program that
provides a college education to prison inmates be eliminated, the Austin American-Statesman reports. Inmates who take vocational courses or who work on college degrees while they’re behind bars are expected to reimburse the state after they’re released. But, according to the newspaper, 16,088 ex-convicts still owe taxpayers a total of $9.5-million. The state has spent $26.9-million on the program over the past decade, the paper reports, and has been reimbursed only $4.7-million. “We don’t provide free college tuition for anyone else like this, so with the budget crisis we’re facing, why should we for convicted felons?” said Rep. Jerry Madden, a Republican who is chair of the House Corrections Committee. Supporters of providing higher education in prison say it helps convicts become productive and law-abiding citizens when they get out.
REALITY BITES
WE ARE NOT IN CONTROL IF YOU THINK YOU ARE, I HAVE A BRIDGE
FOR SALE IN BROOKLYN
REALITY OFTEN DICTATES ISSUES PLAY THE CARDS THAT ARE DEALT YOU
HOT OFF THE PRESS
FEDERAL IRS AND PRISONER TAX FRAUS
2008 – TAX FRAUD PROTECTION ACT IRS & FEDERAL BUREAU OF PRISONS
2010 – “ALLOWS” IRS TO SHARE PRISONER TAX INFORMATION SENT US ALL MOU’S
New York Issues
2007 - Mental Health & Call Home Commission
2008 - Sex Offender Management Treatment Act
2009 – Closure & Post Release Supervision 2010 – Pregnant Offenders & Consolidation 2011 - Budget & Closure
- DOCS - Parole Merger - Research and Use of Technology 2012 – Transgender Identity Disorder
2000 201040,000
45,000
50,000
55,000
60,000
65,000
70,000 Mental Health Level of Inmate Population, 2000 vs. 2010
Level 1
Level 2
Level 3
Level 4
Non-OMH
End of Year
84%
86%
5%
1%
6%
5%
3%
5%
2%
3%
Admissions Releases Under Custody0
1,000
2,000
3,000
4,000
5,000
6,000
1,161 1,092
4,778
1,357 1,368
5,315
Sex OffendersAdmissions, Releases and Under
Custody2000 2010
2000 20100%
20%
40%
60%
80%
54%
63%
16%
22%
30%
15%
Fewer Nonviolent Offenders Under Custody, 2000 versus 2010
VFO'sOther NonviolentDrug Offenders
End of Year
Total Population
70,154
TotalPopulation
56,315
TECHNOLOGY WILL SAVE US
DO WE JUST USE IT, OR DO WE FIRST PLAN ON WHAT WE NEED AND HOW TO USE IT?
WHO SETS THE GOALS?
HOW DO WE MEASURE SUCH USE?
GENDER IDENTITY DISORDER
WPATH WORLD PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATION OF
TRANSGENDER HEALTH STANDARDS OF CARE
NATIONAL COMMISSION ON CORRECTIONAL HEALTH CARE: TRANSGENDER HEALTH CARE IN CORRECTIONAL SETTINGS
POTENTIAL ISSUES
INFORMATION IS CRITICAL DATA IS AVAILABLE MANY PLACES
CIVIC RESEARCH INSTITUTE CORRECTIONAL LAW REPORTER CORRECTIONAL MENTAL HEALTH REPORT OFFENDER PROGRAMS REPORT
LEFT FIELD ISSUES
THE GOVERNOR AGREED TO WHAT?
THE COURT SAID WHAT?
WHO LET THE ADVOCATES IN?
BE CAREFUL FOR WHAT YOU ASK FOR REMEMBER, YOU ACCEPTED THE JOB
LAST THOUGHTS
IF YOUR GUT IS TELLING YOU SOMETHING IS COMING DOWN THE PIKE, LISTEN
READ THE LOCAL AND NATIONAL PAPERS FOR CLUES WHERE THINGS ARE GOING
KEEP YOUR FRIENDS CLOSE AND YOUR ENEMIES CLOSER
