Program Description

The Program provides rehabilitation services to citizens that are admitted to a penal institution for not posting the bail imposed by the Court or for having been sentenced to prison. As part of this program, the inmate is guaranteed his/her constitutional rights: the right to life, access to the courts and legal representation, as well as receiving just and humane treatment.

It offers programs and services to encourage and promote behavioral changes of inmates in order to rehabilitate and help them rejoin society as useful, productive and responsible members of society. Counseling, orientation, treatment, housing, meals, clothing, educational, recreational and religious services are offered.

Objectives

• Establish security measures that eradicate the use of illicit drugs at all correctional facilities.

• Eliminate idle time in the correctional population by offering employment options.

• Promote the physical, mental and spiritual well being of the inmate population as in important part of the rehabilitation process.

• Comply with the provisions of the federal courts by offering programs and services to inmates such as: education and vocational training, active recreation, access to the courts and law library, physical and mental health, adequate food services and medical diets, religious services, capacity and population, and inmate classification.

• Provide inmates with mental health and controlled substance problems effective treatment and rehabilitation programs.

• Offer courses that allow inmates to acquire a high school or college diplomas.

• Create effective channels of communication between inmate families and the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.

• Offer support services to inmates that area discharged form the correctional system to help them avoid criminal conduct.

• Develop services for inmates using the Integral Rehabilitation Model.

Statistical Data	2010	2011	2012
Customers served	11,527	11,239	10,958

The statistical data was provided by the Agency during the Fiscal Year 2011-2012 budget formulation process.

Customers

Anyone incarcerated by the courts.

Human Resources

Authorized and Proposed Positions	2009	2010	2011	2012
Managerial,Technical, Administrative, and Office Staff	536	547	398	388
Teachers	50	47	48	46
Other Safety and Protection Staff	2,824	2,685	2,646	3,077
Food Services Staff	10	10	5	32
Planning, Budget, Statistics, Auditing, and Finance	0	0	0	12
Education and Recreational Services Professionals	19	22	19	17
Maintenance and General Services Staff	12	13	8	4
Families and Community Services Staff	1	1	1	1
Total, Positions	3,452	3,325	3,125	3,577

Program Description

This institution follows a new managerial approach where direct inmate services are decentralized in order to provide inmates a better quality of life by prioritizing work related to the conditions of the correctional facilities. It is comprised of the following institutions: the Bayamon Maximum Security Annex 292, Detention Center 1072, Bayamon Metropolitan Regional Institution 308/448, Bayamon Institution 501, the Bayamon Metropolitan Intake Center 705, Zarzal Correctional Camp, the Zarzal Correctional Institution, The Fajardo Social Adaptation Home, the San Juan Intermediate Home for Women, The Humacao Controlled Substances Treatment Residence, the Correctional Psychiatric Hospital, the Guayama Institutions, the Vega Alta Social Adaptation Home and the Vega Alta Industrial School.

Programs and services are grouped together to encourage and promote rehabilitation. Some of the programs offered are: counseling and treatment, housing, meals, clothing, educational, recreational and religious services. Health services and drug and alcohol evaluation and treatment services are also provided to inmates, employees and other members of society.

Objectives

• Eliminate idle time in the correctional population by offering employment options.

• Establish security measures that eradicate the use of controlled substances and illegal drugs at all correctional facilities.

• Create effective channels of communication between inmate families and the Department of Correction and Rehabilitation.

• Promote the physical, mental and spiritual well being of the inmate population as an important part of the rehabilitation process.

• Comply with the directives established by the Morales-Feliciano case: capacity and population, inmate classification, security, staffing, environmental health, maintenance and fire prevention.

• Offer support services to inmates that are discharged from the correctional system to help them avoid criminal conduct.

• Offer courses that allow inmates to acquire a high school or college diplomas.

• Develop services for inmates using the Integrated Rehabilitation Model.

Statistical Data	2010	2011	2012
Customers served	5,935	5,844	5,699

The statistical data was provided by the Agency during the Fiscal Year 2011-2012 budget formulation process.

Customers

The male population in minimum, medium and maximum security facilities.

Human Resources

Authorized and Proposed Positions	2009	2010	2011	2012
Managerial,Technical, Administrative, and Office Staff	259	215	163	146
Teachers	27	20	18	19
Other Safety and Protection Staff	1,598	1,415	1,371	1,343
Total, Positions	1,884	1,650	1,552	1,508

Administration and Supervision of Ponce Correctional Institution

Program Description

On December 30, 1991, the Carlos Morales- Feliciano Case litigants, et. al., Civil No. 79-4, agreed and undersigned the stipulation related to the Ponce Population Management and Pilot Project Office. A framework was established to terminate the litigation and to provide inmates better living conditions. The new approach would decentralize and delegate authority and at the same time expedite services offered to inmates. The Ponce Correctional Institution is responsible for inmate rehabilitation and offers the best incarceration conditions. This institution should promote change throughout the correctional system to reduce Federal Court's involvement in the rehabilitation process.

Services offered include: counseling, orientation and treatment, housing, meals, clothing, educational, recreational and religious services. Health services, and evaluation and drug addiction treatment services are provided through the Correctional Health Program. In addition, it is responsible for maintaining security.

The Ponce Correctional Institution is comprised of the following facilities: the Correctional Institution, the Phase III Minimal Custody Center, the Maximum Security Institution, the Alternative Housing Institution (Annex 246), the Ponce Adult Institution 1,000, the Adult Medical Facility Institution 500, the Southern Intake Center 646, the Ponce Young Adult Institution 304, the Work Leave Center, the Modular Detention Center, La Pica Camps, Sabana Hoyos, Limon, the Sabana Hoyos Annex 384, the Guerrero Correctional Institution, the Mayaguez Social Adaptation Home, the Western Detention Center and Central Office of the Complex, and the Arecibo Residential Treatment Center.

Statistical Data	2010	2011	2012
Customers served	5,592	5,395	5,259

The statistical data was provided by the Agency during the Fiscal Year 2011-2012 budget formulation process.

Customers

Management and operational personnel

Human Resources

Authorized and Proposed Positions	2009	2010	2011	2012
Managerial,Technical, Administrative, and Office Staff	326	313	226	211
Teachers	67	63	58	57
Other Safety and Protection Staff	1,545	1,668	1,605	1,587
Total, Positions	1,938	2,044	1,889	1,855

Program Description

Management of the Agency is conducted by the Administrator, the Assistant Administrator and Program Directors. It provides assessment and support services through Legal Affairs, Planning, Public Relations, Budget, Human Resources, Administrative Services, Administrative Investigations and Complaints and Grievance Offices.

Objectives

• Use state of the art technology to improve the supervision and monitoring of inmates.

• Establish security measures that eradicate the use of controlled substances and illegal drugs at all correctional facilities.

• Provide correctional officers the tools and equipment needed to do their job.

• Reduce expenses and reassign funds to guarantee the availability of services.

• Evaluate the effectiveness of the Correctional Plan.

• Comply with the orders and stipulations established by the Federal Court to bring an end to the Morales-Feliciano Case.

• Avert corruption by overseeing all operational areas.

• Train and retrain correctional personnel in the areas of security and inmate management.

• Implement a recycling program to recover the cardboard, plastic, paper and aluminum used in institutional kitchens and commissaries.

Statistical Data	2010	2011	2012
Customers served	22,765	21,626	20,545

The statistical data was provided by the Agency during the Fiscal Year 2011-2012 budget formulation process.

Customers

Management and operational personnel

Human Resources

Authorized and Proposed Positions	2009	2010	2011	2012
Managerial,Technical, Administrative, and Office Staff	310	306	207	200
Teachers	3	3	2	2
Other Safety and Protection Staff	4	0	0	0
Families and Community Services Staff	1	0	0	0
Total, Positions	318	309	209	202

Program Description

It offers evaluation, treatment and counseling services to inmates at the request of socio-penal services personnel through Penal Institutions Program, Community Program, the General Court of Justice and the Parole Board.

The Program is intended to increase the possibilities of social adjustment and adaptation during confinement through personal development and growth. Psychometric analysis is used to test and determine inmates personality to provide the correct treatment and to help during the decision making process. In addition, it contributes to directing the effectiveness of correctional population rehabilitation programs. The offices are located in San Juan, Humacao, Caguas, Bayamon, Ponce and Aguadilla.

• Promote the development of programs intended to offer evaluation and treatment services for drug addiction and mental health services.

• Establish the Integrated Rehabilitation Model.

Statistical Data	2010	2011	2012
Customers served	11,527	11,239	10,958

The statistical data was provided by the Agency during the Fiscal Year 2011-2012 budget formulation process.

Customers

All inmates.

Authorized and Proposed Positions	2009	2010	2011	2012
Managerial,Technical, Administrative, and Office Staff	33	37	31	28
Families and Community Services Staff	3	9	6	5
Total, Positions	36	46	37	33

RESEARCH AND SUPERVISION OF INMATES INTO THE COMMUNITY

Program Description

Act No. 116, assigns the responsibility of administering the probation system to this Program. It supervises and investigates probationers in Puerto Rico to help them rejoin the community after being rehabilitated. The probationer is allowed to continue the treatment received in the correctional institution. In both cases, the individual needs to meet specific behavior criteria.

The following services are provided: Interstate Reciprocity that allows for the exchange of inmates on probation between Puerto Rico, the United States and the Virgin Islands. The Drug Court Project, a unit specialized in the investigation of controlled substances cases, is an interagency project where the Correctional Administration has the responsibility to investigate cases referred by the courts. Probation and Parole reviews all cases submitted for this type of custody. Inmates with terminal illness or a short lif expectancy can, according to Act No. 116, be released on compassionate medical grounds to receive the necessary care and treatment at home under the supervision of the Program. Act No. 22 of January 7, 2000, as amended, known as the Puerto Rico Motor Vehicles Law applies to cases of people who violate traffic laws when driving under the influence of alcohol. The Community Program's socio-penal technicians investigate and supervise sexual crime conviction cases. Act No. 54 of August 15, 1989, as amended, investigates and supervises domestic violence cases and provides education programs for people who have committed this kind of crime.

The Daily Appearance Center is designed provide intensive supervision and treatment services to probationers that have difficulty complying with the rules of the probation programs and aims to help probationers continue to participate in the free community under strict control and supervision. This program has offices in Aguadilla, Aibonito, Bayamon, Caguas, Carolina, Guayama, Humacao, Mayaguez, Ponce, San Juan and Utuado.

• Promote the expansion of specialized drug treatment facilities throughout the Island.

• Establish a Citizens and Victims Committee to collaborate in the services provided to inmates.

Statistical Data	2010	2011	2012
Customers served	19,240	18,107	17,061

The statistical data was provided by the Agency during the Fiscal Year 2011-2012 budget formulation process.

Customers

Male and female population. Sentenced clients who are being investigated or under supervision.

Human Resources

Authorized and Proposed Positions	2009	2010	2011	2012
Managerial,Technical, Administrative, and Office Staff	519	457	400	370
Other Safety and Protection Staff	2	17	17	19
Total, Positions	521	474	417	389

Program Description

This Program was created as a result of the 1974 Environmental Plan prepared by the Federal Monitor. It offers guidelines for complying with adequate inmate hygiene and living standards. It provides maintenance for the electrical systems, laundry equipment, fire alarms and water treatment plants in each of the correctional institutions. In accordance with a federal government stipulation dated June 11, 2002, the program was restructured and renamed in order to facilitate the coordination and supervision of construction and rehabilitation functions. This new structure is called the Facilities and Maintenance Office and it replaces Conservation and Engineering Services Office. The federal government required the permanent establishment of this unit in order to comply with the Maintenance and Environmental Health Plan.

This work is carried out in coordination with agencies such as: the Department of Health, the Fire Department, the Environmental Quality Board, the Department of Justice, the Department of Natural and Environmental Resources, the Aqueducts and Sewers Authority and the Electrical Energy Authority.

Objective

• Refurbishing of all correctional institutions to provide secure living areas for the population. Comply with specific stipulations of the Morales-Feliciano Case such as: Environmental Health, Maintenance and Fire Prevention.

Statistical Data	2010	2011	2012
Customers served	37	37	37

The information is statistical data provided by the Agency during the Fiscal Year 2011-2012 budget preparation process.

Customers

The physical structure of 37 correctional institutions.

Human Resources

Authorized and Proposed Positions	2009	2010	2011	2012
Managerial,Technical, Administrative, and Office Staff	60	57	35	30
Maintenance and General Services Staff	63	56	43	32
Total, Positions	123	113	78	62

FISCAL YEAR 2011-2012 ADOPTED BUDGET

The adopted consolidated budget for Fiscal Year 2011-2012 is $362,466,000. The funding includes: $360,068,000 from the Joint Resolution General Fund and $2,398,000 federal grants.

Operational Expenses reflect an increase of $6,982,000 in comparison with Fiscal Year 2010-2011 Budget. This increase will allow for compliance with correctional institution security standards in accordance with the Morales-Feliciano Case stipulations that include the recruiting of 200 correctional cadets and 49 positions related to direct inmate food services. In addition, it will provide additional funds to cover facilities and public service expense and professional services. Funds are consigned to continue rehabilitation services for inmates and their families. Among the more outstanding of these are: Real Transformation, Crafts Workshops, Decoration and Maintenance, and Going Forward. The Joint Resolution general funds wil be used to continue to provide better living conditions to inmates, continue to provide counseling services and specialized and individualized treatment as stipulated in the Morales-Feliciano Case and services to convicts as established by their constitutional rights. Some of the contributing federal programs are: Byrne Formula Grant Program, Statewide Automated Victim Information and Notification (SAVIN) and the Supportive Housing Program.

SUMMARY OF AVAILABLE RESOURCES

SUMMARY OF RESOURCES BY PROGRAM

Penal Institutions and Inmate Services Administration

Administration and Supervision of Bayamon's Correctional Complex

Investigation and Supervision of Convicts in the Community

Research and supervision of inmates into the community