Value of CJPA

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CJPA Presenters

• Karen Dalton, DrPH, CJM
• Director, Offender Services Bureau
• Los Angeles County Sheriffs Department
• ksdalton_at_lasd.org
• M.J. Robb, MPA
• Director, Support Services
• Contra Costa County Sheriffs Office
• mrobb_at_so.cccounty.us

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CJPA Presenters

• Cammie Noah, MPA
• Inmate Programs and Services Manager
• Sonoma County Sheriffs Office
• cnoah_at_sonoma-county.org

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CJPA California Jail Programs Association

• Goal at inception today, 27 years later,
  remains the same
• Professionals united to create a voice for inmate
  programs
• Share best practices
• Strength in numbers
• Reduce recidivism depopulate jails
• Provide interventions for community reintegration

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History of CJPA

• Organized in 1984
• Filed with State of California to obtain 501c3
• status
• Created CJPA constitution and by-laws
• Established election of officers
• Implemented quarterly meeting structure
• Currently 32 counties represented a few hundred
  members
• www.cjpa.net

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CJPA Constitution

• To provide humane and decent conditions
  essential to and compatible with the management
  of safe and secure jail facilities
• Assure adherence to jail oversight standards
• Recognizes and supports the impact programming
  can have on reducing inmates tensions and stress
• Concurrently provide inmates constructive options
  to make life changes

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Inmate Education Plan

• Provide for academic education and/or vocational
  training programs for pretrial and sentenced
  inmates
• California Penal Code, Sections 6030 4018.5
• Title 15, Article 6 Minimum Standards for Adult
  Local Detention Facilities
• California Education Code

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Title 15, Article 6

• Requires facilities provide
• Inmate education
• Visiting
• Correspondence
• Library service
• Recreational reading
• Voting
• Religious observances (RLUIPA)

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Organization Members

• Inmate Programs, Support Services, Operations,
  Administrative Services (directors, managers,
  coordinators, staff, and command staff)
• Recreational professionals
• Detention facility command and line staff
• Religious providers
• Non-profit and CBO partners
• Industry sponsors

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Role CJPA Plays to Support Programs

• Centralized, comprehensive resource for all
  counties
• CJPA designate at quarterly Corrections Standards
  Authority meetings
• In 2011, CJPA member appointed on Title 15
  Regulations Revisions Committee panel
• Tailors trainings to address all levels of
  personnel working in jail programs, services, and
  administration

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Benefits to Members

• Professional social structure
• Venues and avenues to exchange ideas
• Share/promote best practices
• Training by leading industry professionals
• Opportunities to educate legislators, media, and
  the public about the positive interventions
  implemented throughout the State

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Educational Involvement
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Shared Resources

• Eliminates reinventing the wheel
• Easily replication of successful programs
• Quick and easy List Serve
• On-site access to jail programs statewide via
  quarterly meeting participation
• Promote successful programming

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AAT
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Vermiculture Program
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Training and Development

• Tailored to various areas of expertise
• State regulations and standards presentation
  from CDCR at annual CJPA conference
• National, state, and local experts participate in
  and present at quarterly meetings
• Concise delivery of information regarding
  goods/services from potential vendors

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Previous Training Topics

• Legal Issues Religious Practices Carrie Hill,
  ESQ (Monterey County)
• Education Based Incarceration Evaluating Inmate
  Programs (Los Angeles County)
• Manalive, Violence Intervention and Prevention
  Training Hamish Sinclair (Santa Cruz County)
• Bridging the Gap Between Programs and Custody
  Staff (San Bernardino County)

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More Training Topics

• Women in the Criminal Justice System Stephanie
  Covington, Ph.D. (Tulare County)
• Reducing Recidivism Principles of Effective
  Intervention Ed Latessa, Ph.D. (LA County)
• Justice Reform, Dreams of the Monster Factory
  Sunny Schwartz, ESQ (Alameda County)
• Gender Responsiveness Promising Jail Based
  Programs for Women Offenders Barbara Bloom,
  Ph.D. (Sonoma County)

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Pew Center on the States

•  April 2011 report on recidivism and value of
  behavioral interventions
• Risk/needs assessments
• Case management
• Transition planning/reentry strategy
• Swift probation sanctions for violations
• Research or evidenced-based programs
• Creating incentives

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Successful Programming
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Overcoming Challenges

• Budget/economic issues and their fiscal impact on
  programs and services
• Generate and maximize revenue streams
• Establishing jail industry programs
• Inmate work crews
• Developing and/or growing volunteer programs to
  support paid program instructors

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Overcoming Challenges

• Grant proposals in collaboration with justice and
  community partners
• Consider increasing contracted like services,
  such as legal research
• Utilizing existing personnel for organizational
  cross training
• Engage community
• Diminishing budgets

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PATHS Mental Health Program
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Community Support
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INMATE WELFARE FUND INMATE SERVICES PROGRAMS
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Inmate Welfare Fund

• The IWF is regulated by
• CA Penal Code Sections 4025 and 4026
• Commissary
• Inmate Vocational Programs
• Guidelines for use of revenue from these sources

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Inmate Welfare Fund

• All services/programs are funded through the
  INMATE WELFARE FUND (IWF)
• IWF is revenue collected from various sources
• Inmate telephone calls
• Commissions from commissary sales
• Sales of inmate industries products
• Misc. revenue Court reimbursements for pro-per
  phone calls recycling
• NO TAX DOLLARS ARE USED!

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Program Funding Contra Costa County, CA

• FY 2009-10 IWF Budget - 1.7 million
• FY 2010-11 IWF Budget - 1.8 million
• Based on an ADP of 1,600
• IWF Program Services is a division of the
  Custody Services Bureau and all program
  staff/volunteers work in collaboration with
  custody staff

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Inmate Services

• In California, there are two legally mandated
  services
• Legal services for pro-per inmates
• Religious services
• All other services Discretionary

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• WHAT PROGRAMS AND SERVICES
• DOES THE
• INMATE WELFARE FUND
• PAY FOR?

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Inmate Services

• Legal Research (Mandated)
• Legal Research Associates (LRA)
• Provides unlimited criminal, not civil, legal
  assistance to court-appointed, pro-per inmates
  limited to general population
• No civil issues unless mandated by law Habeas
  Corpus, Civil Rights - Confinement

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Inmate Services

• Request form in modules
• Inmate completes gives to deputy deputy submits
  to CAS
• Documents returned within 72 hours (pro-per
  policy)
• Responsiveness and access to information reduces
  inmate stress

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Chaplain Services (Mandated)

• Counseling
• Worship services
• Bible studies
• Marriage information for inmates
• Approve religious diets
• Provide requested reading materials
• All services are INMATE DRIVEN

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Educational Classes (Discretionary)

• Contra Costa County Office of Education
• GED and high school diploma prep
• Adult basic education
• DEUCE drug and alcohol education
• Computer applications
• Parenting
• ESL English as a Second Language
• Literacy (collaboration with libraries)
• Transitional services

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GED
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Vocational Classes (Discretionary)

• Woodshop
• Inmate industries
• Engraving, Signage (including Braille),
  Vinyl, and Vehicle Decaling
• Picture framing
• Landscaping

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Agency Services (Discretionary)

• AA and NA
• Domestic Violence
• Veteran Affairs
• SSI/Homeless Cooperative
• Anger Management
• Child Protective Services
• Child Support Services
• UC Davis Immigration Law Clinic
• Women of Worth (WOW)

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Inmate Services

• Library Services
• Provide inmates information
• Community programs
• Published information from phone book
• Limited copies of non-legal information

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IWF Provides

• Newspapers
• TVs
• Direct TV Services
• Movie Rentals
• Equipment Repairs
• DVD/VCR Players
• Electric Razors

• Bus/BART Tickets
• Sports Equipment
• Inmate Rewards
• Soda, Candy, Popcorn
• Hair Trimmers
• Nail Clippers
• Disinfectant Spray

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INTERNAL EXTERNAL IMPACTS
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Buy -In

• Develop solidify relationships
• Includes command/line/programs staff and
  volunteer providers
• Overwhelming support from CA Sheriffs
• Promote agency transparency invite the
  community inside
• Provide safety/security training bi-annually to
  all providers

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Local Reentry

• Tasked by federal and state governments to assume
  increased responsibility
• Realignment of state inmates to local level
• Provide EBP interventions for state prisoners
• Facilities contracting for state prisoners to
  boost agency revenues

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Collaboration with CBOs

• Creating/strengthening programs with clearly
  defined reintegration links
• In-custody ? Probation ? Community
• Implement risk assessment tool and apply targeted
  interventions to the high risk-to-reoffend
• Inmate case management
• Exit planning

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Quarterly Training
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Criminal Justice Planning

• Apply alternative diversionary programs
• Initiate day reporting centers or community
  correction service center
• Develop Education Employment Program
• Napas outcome is an 85 employment rate
• Institute an Education Based Incarceration plan

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State Budget Impacts

• Fiscal impact on local budgets
• Collaboration, consensus building, partnerships
  key to success

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Join CJPA

• www.cjpa.net
• 25 annually for non-voting member