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. (a) It is the intent of the Legislature that the Department
of Corrections and Rehabilitation shall regularly provide operational
and fiscal information to the Legislature to allow it to better
assess the performance of the department in critical areas of
operations, including to both evaluate the effectiveness of
department programs and activities, as well as assess how efficiently
the department is using state resources.
(b) No later than January 10 of each year, the Department of
Corrections and Rehabilitation shall provide to the Joint Legislative
Budget Committee operational and fiscal information to be displayed
in the Governor's proposed budget. This information shall include
data for the three most recently ended fiscal years, and shall
include, but is not limited to, the following:
(1) Per capita costs, average daily population, and offender to
staff ratios for each of the following:
(A) Adult inmates housed in state prisons.
(B) Adult inmates housed in Community Correctional Facilities and
out-of-state facilities.
(C) Adult parolees supervised in the community.
(D) Juvenile wards housed in state facilities.
(E) Juvenile parolees supervised in the community.
(2) Total expenditures and average daily population for each adult
and juvenile institution.
(3) Number of established positions and percent of those positions
vacant on June 30 for each of the following classifications within
the department:
(A) Correctional officer.
(B) Correctional sergeant.
(C) Correctional lieutenant.
(D) Parole agent.
(E) Youth correctional counselor.
(F) Youth correctional officer.
(G) Physician.
(H) Registered nurse.
(I) Psychiatrist.
(J) Psychologist.
(K) Dentist.
(L) Teacher.
(M) Vocational instructor.
(N) Licensed vocational nurse.
(4) Average population of juvenile wards classified by board
category.
(5) Average population of adult inmates classified by security
level.
(6) Average population of adult parolees classified by supervision
level.
(7) Number of new admissions from courts, parole violators with
new terms, and parole violators returned to custody.
(8) Number of probable cause hearings, revocation hearings, and
parole suitability hearings conducted.
(9) For both adult and juvenile facilities, the number of budgeted
slots, actual enrollment, and average daily attendance for
institutional academic and vocational education and substance abuse
programs.
(10) Average population of mentally ill offenders classified by
Correctional Clinical Case Management System or Enhanced Outpatient
Program status, as well as information about mentally ill offenders
in more acute levels of care.
(c) No later than January 10 of each year, the Department of
Corrections and Rehabilitation shall provide to the Joint Legislative
Budget Committee a supplemental report containing operational and
fiscal information in addition to data provided in subdivision (b).
To the extent possible and relevant, the department shall seek to
keep the categories of information provided the same each year so as
to provide consistency. This report shall contain information for the
three most recently ended fiscal years, and shall include, but is
not limited to, data on the operational level and outcomes associated
with the following categories:
(1) Adult prison security operations, including use of
disciplinary measures and special housing assignments such as
placements in administrative segregation, Security Housing Units, and
sensitive needs yards, identifying these placements by offender
categories such as security level and mental health classification.
(2) Adult prison education and treatment programs, including
academic education, vocational training, prison industries, substance
abuse treatment, and sex offender treatment.
(3) Adult prison health care operations, including medical,
mental, and dental health.
(4) Adult parole operations, including number of discharges from
parole supervision and provision of various treatment and sanction
programs.
(5) Board of Parole Hearings, including the total number of parole
suitability hearings scheduled for inmates serving life sentences
each year, the number of parole suitability hearings postponed each
year and the reasons for postponement, and the backlog of parole
suitability hearings.
(5.1) Board of Parole Hearings, including the total number of
adult parole revocation cases with probable cause hearings scheduled
each year, the percent of parole revocation cases with probable cause
hearings held within 10 business days, as well as the percent of
adult parole revocation cases completed within 35 calendar days.
(6) Juvenile institution security operations, including use of
disciplinary measures and special housing assignments such as special
management programs, as well as the impact of time that adds or cuts
the length of confinement.
(7) Juvenile institutional education and treatment programs,
including academic education, vocational training, substance abuse
treatment, and sex offender treatment.
(8) Juvenile institutional health care operations, including
medical, mental, and dental health.
(9) Juvenile parole operations, including the number of juvenile
parolees returned to state institutions and provision of various
treatment and sanction programs.
(9.1) Juvenile Parole Board, including juvenile parole revocation
hearings.
(d) To the extent any of the information in subdivision (b) or (c)
falls under the purview of the federally appointed receiver over
medical care services, the Department of Corrections and
Rehabilitation shall, to the best of its ability, coordinate with the
receiver in obtaining this information.