The National Institute of Corrections’

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The National Institute of Corrections

• Transition To Community Initiatives

• TPC Transition from Prison to Community -
  Center for Effective Public Policy
  
• - and -
• TJC Transition from Jail to Community
• The Urban Institute

Kermit Humphries Program Specialist
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What Are We Going to Do?

• NIC Overview of Transition
• Kermit Humphries, NIC
• Audience Introduction and Information -
• Transition from Prison to Community (TPC) -
• Peggy Burke, Center for Effective Public
  Policy (CEPP)
• Transition from Jail to Community (TJC) -
• Jesse Jannetta, The Urban Institute
• Questions and Discussion

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NICs Interest in Transition

• 1985-2000 Decision-making Violations Policies
  ? Systems Change Collaboration.
• NIC has an overarching concern for public
  safety. Taking Several Forms.
• Big increases in number of released offenders
  each year.
• Transition practices are often fragmented and
  compartmentalized.
• Stakeholders compete rather than cooperate.

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Critical NIC/TPC/TJC Principles

• Involve multiple stakeholders
• Concentrate on reforming systems
• Transition starts at admission or before
• Risk-reduction reforms are driven by
  evidence-based practices
• Monitor performance and evaluate

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Transition/Reentry Climate

• Learned much since 2000 from theory to practice
• Much more awareness and interest in offenders
  returning to local communities
• Not just the job of corrections anymore
• Multiple agencies and organizations investing
• Consistent and complimentary messages and tools
• Economy is changing attitudes opportunities

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Transition From Jail to Community

• The Urban Institute Amy Solomon,
  Project Director
• Two Learning Sites over past year
• Douglas County, KS, and Denver, CO
• Four more jurisdictions began to receive two
  years implementation assistance Sept. 10
• Orange County, CA Kent County, MI
• Lacross County, WI Davidson County,
  TN
• Future products will document what is learned.

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• Transition From Prison to Community
• Center For Effective Public Policy Peggy Burke,
  Project Director
• Phase I Oregon, Missouri, Michigan, North
  Dakota, Indiana, New York, Rhode Island, Georgia
• (Began in 2001 and ended in 2009)
• Phase II Kentucky, Tennessee, Texas. Wyoming,
  Iowa, Minnesota.
• (Began in November 2009 and will receive
  assistance for about 21/2 years.)

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Transition from Prison to the CommunityAn
Initiative of the National Institute of
Corrections

• Overview by
• Peggy Burke, Project Director
• Center for Effective Public Policy
• Prepared for presentation at
• APPA 2010 Winter Institute
• Tuesday, February 2, 2010, 830 1000 a.m.

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TPCs Primary Goal

• To enhance the successful transition of offenders
  from prison to the community in order to enhance
  public safety and reduce future victimization
  through recidivism reduction.

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The TPC Model
Transition From Prison to Community
Release Authority
Community Supervision
Prison
Human Services Agencies
Institutional Phase
Community Phase
Re-Entry Phase
TPC Integrated Case Management
IA, KY, MN, TN, TX, WY GA, IN, MI, MO, ND, NY,
OR, RI
Transition from Prison to Community Initiative
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TPC.

• Round One--8 states GA, IN, MI, MO, ND, NY, OR,
  RI
• Duration from 4 years 8 years
• Round Two6 states IA, KY, MN, TN,
• TX, WYbeginning Oct 09
• NICthrough CEPPhas provided technical
  assistance and the guidance of the
• TPC Model
• Distinctive among many national/local efforts
• Second round involves Urban Institute with a
  focus on measurement

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Distinctive aspects of TPC

• Its goal is public safety through offender
  success
• Leadership
• Change agentscollaborative teams
• Focused on system change
• Based on evidence
• Targets by risk and need to reduce recidivism
• Demands measurable outcomes
• Recidivism reduction
• System change
• reentry indicatorsemployment, education,
  reduced drug use, access to services, etc.
• Driven by a rational implementation process based
  on good information about current practice and
  what works

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A Roadmap for Implementing the TPC Model
Form and Charter Teams Expand Partnerships
Clarify and Affirm Vision and Mission
Target and Implement Change
Assessment and Classification Behavior and
Programming Release Preparation Release/Revocation
Supervision/Services
Identify Opportunities To Introduce
Evidence-Based Practice
Understand And Evaluate The NOW
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Sites Participating in First Round of TPC
Data from the Bureau of Justice Assistance Web
Site and the U.S. Census Bureau
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LessonsKey Ingredients of Success

• Commitment of key leadership of critical partners
• Ability to assign reasonable staff support
• Infrastructurecapacity for planning, analysis
• Balancing pressure for change with distractions
• Perseverance

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A Critical Insight

• Successful reentry depends upon a seamless and
  collaborative process from admission to
  discharge.It also requires us all to do business
  differently.

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Seeks to move from

• From
• Custody/monitoring
• Silos
• Agency isolation
• Unproven methods
• Measuring inputs
• Offender failure

• To
• Behavior change
• Coherent process
• Collaboration
• Using what works
• Measuring outcomes
• Offender success and public safety

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Barriers

• This is about system changethe major barrier is
  the system itselfits HUGE
• The current system is designed to punish and
  incapacitatenot to change behavior
• Inertia
• Ingrained ways of doing business
• Lack of skills, tools, for mid-level and line
  staff
• Silos
• Population pressures that make access to programs
  difficult
• Budget pressure

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KEY ASSETS

• Realization that successful transition is about
  public safety
• Collaborative change teamswithin the system and
  with external partners
• Community interest has been stimulated.should be
  a significant source of resources
• Cross-trainingexamining together the current
  situationproblems, resources, possible solutions
• Budget pressureforces redeployment

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GEORGIA

• Implemented new assessment protocol--COMPAS
• Electronic sharing of reentry plans between
  institutions and the field
• Developing dash board measures in order to
  track progress
• Increasing percentage of successful completions
  of parole

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INDIANA

• Plainfield Educational Reentry Facility
• In-reach by local resources
• Developing a quality assurance capability

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MICHIGAN

• 11,925 MPRI offenders, 9,388 of them released
• 2007 data show a 26 improvement in return to
  prison rates over pre-MPRI population
• Dedicated staff to implementing Collaborative
  Case Management--training of staff on case
  management
• Review of all institutional programs to assess
  compliance with EBP

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MISSOURI

• Transitional Housing Units operate in 11
  institutions state-wide
• Missouri Reentry Process (MRP) Steering Teams now
  serve every county in the State of Missouri
• MRP has successfully spanned THREE administration

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NEW YORK

• Established a dedicated Offender Reentry Unit
  within the Division of Criminal Justice Services
• Implementing new approaches to risk and need
  assessments (COMPAS)
• Formed Local Reentry Task Forces to
• do team-based case management

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NORTH DAKOTA

• Total reorganization of the Department of
  Corrections
• Using the LSI-R and focusing case plans upon high
  risk cases and criminogenic needs
• Developing a Transition Accountability Plan that
  will move with offender from admission to
  discharge from supervision

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OREGON

• Balanced Scorecard
• Governors Reentry Policy Council established by
  Executive Order
• Working groups on housing, employment and mental
  health

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RHODE ISLAND

• Governor has established Steering Committee on
  Prisoner Reentry by Executive Order
• Risk assessment (LSI-R) in place as is a new case
  plan format geared specifically to the domains of
  need identified for each offender
• New discharge planning process
• Comprehensive case management based on assessment
  is under development

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OUTCOMES

• MISSOURI--Decreasing rates of recidivism (return
  to prison) 6 and 12 month follow-ups (23 down
  to 15, 37 down to 30)
• GEORGIAUpward trend in successful completions of
  parole 2005-2007 ( 66 up to 71)
• MICHIGAN--MPRI outcomes through August 2007 --
  26 improvement in total returns to prison (net
  400 fewer returns to prison)

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Major Resources Respond to the Overwhelming
Interest in Transition and Reentry

• Major federal focus on transition and reentry
• Transition from Prison to the Community
• Transition from Jail to the Community
• Serious and Violent Offender Reentry Initiative
• The Presidents Prisoner Reentry Initiative
• Second Chance Act

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ToolsCOMPANION DOCUMENTS

• TPC Reentry HandbookImplementing the NIC
  Transition from Prison to the Community Model
• Increasing Public Safety Through Successful
  Offender Reentry Evidence-Based and Emerging
  Practices in Corrections
• Integrated Case Management Handbook Lessons
  from Implementing the NIC Transition from Prison
  to the Community (TPC) Model (in press)

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Sites Participating in the Second Round of TPC
Data from the Bureau of Justice Assistance Web
Site and the U.S. Census Bureau
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Work under way in new sites to be completed by
May 15, 2010

• Policy Team Formation
• Development of a Transition Vision
• Documenting Current Practice
• Identifying Targets of Change
• Recommendations to the Policy Team
• Development of Workplan to Implement beginning
  after May 15, 2010

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Iowa

• Focusing on reentry for some time
• Conducted a state-wide training in September 2008
  and a follow-up in spring 2009
• Developed models for urban and rural reentry
  approaches
• Governors Ex-Offender Reentry Coordinating
  Council

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Iowa

• Working to bring innovations in some areas of the
  state into common practice everywhere in the
  state
• Further developing a state-wide case management
  and information sharing system
• Development of quality assurance system
• Bringing non-correctional partners to the table
• Developing approaches tailored for both urban and
  rural areas

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Kentuckyprior to TPC

• Executive Order establishing a statewide reentry
  effort
• Established a Reentry Coordinator position within
  DOC
• Involved in strong local reentry efforts
  (Lexington and Louisville)
• Received BJA reentry training for 250 staff

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Kentucky (contd)

• Establishing a multidisciplinary statewide
  reentry steering teamoperations level
• DOC Reentry Task Forcethe spark plug
• Implementing an assessment tool for all offenders
• Evaluating programming re EBP standards
• Charters developed for task force and team work
• Developing a system map for the process

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Minnesota

• Comprehensive Offender Reentry Plan (MNCOR) 2007
  Reentry Pilot Project in Five Counties (Ramsey,
  Hennepin, Dodge, Fillmore and Olmstead)
• Early release planning in the institution
• Collaboration between institutional caseworkers
  and supervisions agents
• Increased access to critical reentry services in
  the community

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Minnesota

• Results to Date
• Participation in the pilot project reduced
  recidivism
• Lowered the risk of rearrest for a new offense by
  37
• Decreased the risk of reconviction for new crime
  by 43
• Reduced the risk of reincarceration for a new
  felony offense by 57
• Did not have statistically significant effect
  when recidivism was measured as a return to
  prison for a technical revocation
• TPC challenge to build on this initiative, create
  collaborations statewide, and implement the full
  model

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Tennessee

• State team co-chaired by DOC Commissioner and
  Parole Board Chair
• Working on transition since 2004under the
  Tennessee Reentry Cooperative (TREC)
• Implementing a Transition Accountability Plan
  statewide
• Implementing LSCMI statewide
• Working on a state-wide vision and system map

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Texas

• The Texas Department of Criminal Justice
  reorganization--created a reentry unit, and has
  received a legislative mandate to report a
  reentry plan by Sep 1, 2010 
• The TDCJ and Parole Board have developed a
  Steering Committee for TPC, chaired by the TDCJ
  Executive Director and the Parole

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Texas

• Vision statement in development
• Sub-committees formed to focus on 
• Assessment issues
• Case planning
• Programming
• Transition and Release
• Community Supervision
• Data/information/evaluation issues

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Wyoming

• Has established a state-wide policy team and a
  working steering team
• Subcommittees have been organized around topics
  to
• Identify desired outcomes
• Assess current status
• Identify problems
• Make recommendations

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Wyoming focus of work groups

• Information and data
• Performance measurement
• Information sharing

• Assessment, case management and programming
• Transition and release
• Community partners, and
• Supervision

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• Work with these new states will benefit from

• A vibrant reentry movement
• Public safety clearly understood as the core
  goal
• Collaboration and involvement of non-correctional
  stakeholders clearly understood and embraced
• Risk reduction and recidivism reduction sought as
  outcomes

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Work with these new states will benefit from

• Sentencingcourts coming to the reentry table
• State-level policy collaboration becoming the
  norm
• Risk/Needs assessments implemented at admission
• Case plan development with targeted interventions

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• This round will benefit from

• More tools available
• More experience available
• The inclusion of specific performance measurement
  technical assistanceUrban Institute
• Round One Sites have agreed to serve as resources

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TPC Performance Measurement Along Three Dimensions

• System Change
• Use of assessment
• Provision of case management
• Targeted interventions
• Collaboration
• Reentry Indicators
• Employment
• Housing
• Substance abuse treatment/desistance
• Mental and physical health
• Public Safety
• Successful completion of supervision
• Re-arrest, reconviction, readmission to prison

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Performance measurement challenges in TPC states

• Incorporating TPC into existing performance
  measurement
• Getting consistency in goals over time
• Measurement in system vs. program performance
• Moving from performance measurement to
  performance management

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• Contacts Information
• Kermit Humphries, Program Specialist,
• National Institute of Corrections
• khumphries_at_bop.gov 202-514-0118
  www.nicic.org/tpci
• Peggy Burke, Principal
• Center for Effective Public Policy
• pburke_at_cepp.com 301-589-9383
  www.cepp.com
• Jesse Jannetta, Research Associate
• The Urban Institute
• JJannetta_at_urban.org 202-261-5593
  www.urban.org

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Download Documents

• TPC Handbook
• http//nicic.org/Downloads/PDF/Library/022669.pdf
• SVORI Handbook
• http//www.cepp.com/documents/CEPP20SVORI_final.p
  df

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