NCJ Number
203710
Date Published
January 2003
Length
93 pages
Annotation
This document presents the annual report of the Corrections Population Management Commission (CPMC) of the State of Hawaii for 2002.
Abstract
The Commission establishes maximum inmate population limits for each correctional facility and formulates policies and procedures to prevent the inmate population from exceeding the capacity of each correctional facility. This report concerns ways to maintain the inmate population within those limits through community-based programs and methods to evaluate the fiscal impacts of proposed sentencing policy and practice. The Commission determined that it would be in the best interest of the State to support existing projects rather than propose additional ones. The Serious and Violent Offender Reentry Initiative facilitates the successful reentry of incarcerated serious and violent offenders into the community through integrated case planning and the unified delivery of services in the County of Maui. The Interagency Council on Intermediate Sanctions aims to reduce recidivism among adult offenders over 5 years and the prevention of future victimization of citizens through an improved criminal justice system. The Integrated Case Management and Substance Abuse Treatment for Offenders aims to reduce the return to custody rate of offenders on community release through integrated case management that spans across criminal justice agencies and a continuum of substance abuse services using best practices. Another faction of the CPMC is the Sentencing Simulation Model Project, which produces forecasts of the prison, parole, and probation populations. The number of sentenced felons either under the jurisdiction of prison or being supervised in the community while on probation or parole is projected to increase by 14.9 percent in the next 5 years. The prison population is expected to increase at a slower pace in the next 5 years, increasing by 29.6 percent. Parole and probation populations will continue to get larger. Admissions to prisons illustrate a gradual shifting of focus, away from offenders sentenced directly from the courts, to parolees revoked and returned to prison and probationers revoked and re-sentenced to prison. 4 figures, 20 charts, 7 references, 3 appendices