Corrections/Jails

The Board requests further technical assistance with Dr. James Austin to review and determine if revisions to the Board’s parole guidelines levels 1, 3, 4, and 7 are merited. Currently, parole guidelines level 1 shows a 0-5% probability rate for success. The Board’s statistics show that voting members’ are voting more than the 5% rate. Additionally, level 7 shows a 76-100% probability rate for success. The data shows the majority of the voting members are unable to attain this rate.

The Governor’s Office on Crime Control and Prevention (GOCCP) is requesting assistance to fund eight members of the Governor’s Commission to Reform Maryland’s Pretrial Release System to travel to the Commonwealth of Kentucky to observe the pretrial risk assessment process in that state. Such a visit can be extremely beneficial to the Commission in completing the tasks assigned to it by the Governor. Kentucky is one of the few states in the country where pretrial services is run statewide, an approach that the Governor has asked the Commission to examine.

The Local Public Safety Coordinating Council (LPSCC) is spearheading Multnomah County's collaborative response to the State of Oregon's Justice Reinvestment efforts set forth in HB 3194. The goal of the State effort is to reduce prison use, reduce recidivism, increase public safety, return cost savings to Locals, and redeploy savings at the State level. Multnomah County (MC) is the largest population center in the State of Oregon.

Our community has various issues with street gangs and motorcycle gangs as well as drug sales and use. We have very little funding available to provide training to educate law enforcement on these topics and many of the usual resources (NCTC, MAGLOCLEN) have reduced their training due to a reduction in funding.

We would like an expert, Dr. Stacey Patton, to attend a conference that will be held on June 10 and June 11, 2014 at Madison WI. This conference is regarding corporal punishment, and has the objective of educating key stakeholders in Dane County before commencing reform in the subject area. We are asking for travel assistance.

Our New Orleans Task Force has been updated with new members (for the new prostitution diversion program that we will be implementing soon under the Racial Justice Improvement Project). The following critical members have been added: Henry Dean from New Orleans Police Department, Mark Burton and Ginger Miller from the DA’s Office and Charlene Larche-Mason from the City Attorney’s Office.

During the past Legislative Session, the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles (BPP) was required to keep the Estimated Approval Rates (EAR) on each category relative to the risk level noted on the matrix as public information. During one of the parole guidelines' revisions, the estimated approval rates were inadvertently left in place on a public document.

I am requesting a form for documenting notification of findings of an investigation to an offender.

We are in need of fiancial support to provide training on smarter sentencing to corrections professionals in our area