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| 1 technology re-entry leadership Advancing Corrections 2011 Annual Report INDIANA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTION Leadership from the top 2 | Governor Mitchell E. Daniels, Jr. “For the Indiana Department of Correction, public safety is always the highest priority and the continual trend of lowering recidivism rates and assuring successful re-entry is critical to that mission. In 2011, the leadership and staff throughout the state have reason to be proud after receiving the coveted ACA’s Golden Eagle Award for the accreditation of all our correctional facilities. I want to commend IDOC for its continued excellence in its service to our state, while finding ways to spend tax dollars more efficiently and effectively.” Table of Contents • Letter from the Commissioner 5 • Executive Staff 6 • Timeline of Progress 18 • Adult Programs & Facilities 30 • Division of Youth Services (DYS) 48 Juvenile Programs & Facilities • Parole Services 58 • Correctional Training Institute (CTI) 66 • PEN Products 70 • Financials & Statistics 76 | 3 Vision As the model of public safety, the Indiana Department of Correction returns productive citizens to our communities and supports a culture of inspiration, collaboration, and achievement. Mission The Indiana Department of Correction advances public safety and successful re-entry through dynamic supervision, programming, and partnerships. Advancing Letter from the Commissioner through Leadership... Bruce Lemmon Commissioner Amanda Copeland Chief of Staff Penny Adams Executive Assistant Aaron Garner Executive Director Research & Technology Randy Koester Michael Osburn Andrew Pritchard Michael Dempsey Bob Bugher Doug Garrison Deputy Commissioner Deputy Commissioner Chief Financial Executive Director Chief Counsel Chief Communication Re-Entry Operations Officer Division Youth Services Officer 4 | Julie Lanham James Basinger Executive Director Executive Director Transitional Services Adult Operations Jerry Vance Richard Curry Executive Director Executive Director Staff Development Programs Emergency Operations Commissioner Commissioner Bruce Lemmon serves as the Bruce Lemmon Agency Head of the Indiana Department of Correction. Governor Mitchell E. Daniels, Jr. appointed Bruce Lemmon as Commissioner effective January 17, 2011. In addition to serving on various Committees and Boards, Commissioner Lemmon is an active member of the American Correctional Association (ACA), the Indiana Criminal Justice Association (ICJA), and the Association of State Correctional Administrators (ASCA). Before being appointed to Commissioner, Bruce Lemmon served as the Superintendent of the Putnamville Correctional Facility in Greencastle, IN. Letter from the Commissioner Greetings: We have had many successes in the past year and Indiana Department of Correction (IDOC) has started off strong in 2012. To name a few, we achieved the highest honor with the American Correctional Association (ACA) by earning the Golden Eagle Award, shown a reduction in the rate of recidivism for adult offenders, and expanded utilization of Community Corrections to help divert lower-risk defendants from prison. The list of accomplishments only continues to grow. In 2011, the IDOC was recognized as a national leader in prison sustainability and efficiency, receiving several environmental awards. The Department and staff have embraced the greening concept and made great strides in correctional sustainability. Some of these initiatives include but are not limited to rain water collection, recycling, wind and solar energy collection, major new lighting initiatives, water conservation, and bio mass boilers. These efforts have produced nearly 700 offender jobs within the facilities, providing offenders with marketable, green job skills that that can be utilized in our communities after their release. It is because of these greening efforts that GreenPrisons.org chose Indiana as the location for the first National Symposium on Sustainable Corrections in 2011 and will return in 2012. Through a shared vision with the Veterans In Partnership Healthcare Network, we opened America’s first prison-based housing unit dedicated to providing specialized programming and transition services to offenders who served in the armed forces. The success of the Indiana | 5 Veterans Education and Transition (INVET) unit has expanded the Department’s collaboration with many state and federal agencies and several veteran services organization. The INVET unit has surpassed our expectations, and the residents speak of a respect and camaraderie that has naturally developed among them and a feeling of hope and opportunity that the unit brings. Also in 2011, we also dedicated Indiana’s first museum honoring the history of corrections and criminal punishment in Indiana. Staff at the Correctional Training Institute and around the state put a great deal of time and effort digging through historical documents, photos, and archives to uncover IDOC’s past. IDOC’s 2011 successes would not have been possible without everyone’s hard work, dedication, and commitment. In the corrections field, our jobs are oftentimes thankless, but it is always rewarding when a major goal is reached and we can see the actual benefit of sacrifices made, late hours worked, and challenges overcome. I am excited to learn what 2012 will unfold for IDOC and the successes our team will achieve as we move forward. It is an honor and pleasure to serve as your Commissioner and it is very humbling to be part of the Indiana Department of Correction family. Sincerely, Commissioner Bruce Lemmon Executive Staff Leadership Executive Staff Leadership Chief of Staff Amanda Copeland serves was a project executed in partnership with the as the primary confidante and advisor to the Indiana Finance Authority. The STOP system Commissioner on all Agency matters. The Chief allows for the placement of Level 2 offenders of Staff generally works behind the scenes to without the need to construct a second inner solve problems, mediate disputes, address perimeter fence to provide effective security. issues, and ensure the Commissioner’s vision and intent is carried out. Amanda Copeland • In 2011, the Construction Services Division was appointed Chief of Staff of the Indiana coordinated a number of external projects Department of Correction in January 2011. throughout the State, in cooperation with 2011 Highlights: other Agencies, to include: renovation and historical refurbishment of the Governor’s MENTAL HEALTH Office in the Capital Building, construction of • The 2011 emphasis on Suicide Prevention and a bison containment fence at the Quabache subsequent policy which required each facility State Park in cooperation with the Indiana to have a suicide plan and a suicide committee Department of Natural Resources, renovation created excellent results. The Department of property in a sensitive location in suicide rate is 10.98 per 100,000 which is conjunction with the Department of Homeland significantly lower than the rate for any Indiana Security for use as a logistical support and male (19.81 per 100,000) or the National Prison command center which included installation Rate (16 per 100,000). of perimeter security systems as well as traditional physical perimeter barriers that 6 | • With assistance from the National Alliance will play an important role during Super Bowl on Mental Illness Indiana, Crisis Intervention weekend in February 2012, and renovation Team (CIT) Training, which has shown of a cabin in a state forest for reuse by other decline of the Use of Force in correctional agencies. These projects, cumulatively, facilities, was conducted at the Correctional saved the other agencies and the Indiana Training Institute for staff from New Castle, taxpayers, a conservative half million dollars Wabash Valley, Pendleton and Putnamville through cooperation, combined efforts, and Correctional Facilities. The entire CIT the creative use of offender labor and State curriculum, as determined by the National assets. Institute of Corrections, has been included in the Department’s Indiana Justice Model and is PREA (PRISON RAPE ELIMINATION ACT) scheduled to be implemented in January 2012. • Established Sexual Assault Response Teams (SART) at each IDOC facility and conducted • The Department initiated a Memorandum of training for all SART members and first Understanding with the Department of Family responders in order to improve the quality of and Social Services to provide offender evidence collection and investigation and to Medicaid processing prior to release. This limit further trauma to victims of sexual assault interagency effort and assistance of Mental inside prison facilities. Health America Indiana will improve eligible offender access to all Medicaid funded • Created Regional Sexual Assault Policy and services upon release. Prevention Coordinators to provide better oversight and assistance to IDOC facilities CONSTRUCTION SERVICES located throughout the state. • Non-lethal electrified perimeters were installed at the Wabash Valley Correctional Facility and • Created and hired a full-time PREA the Plainfield Short Term Offender Program Coordinator, in accordance with Federal PREA (STOP) Facility. The system at Wabash guidelines, to oversee all Department PREA replaced a fence based coaxial tamper system initiatives and reports of sexual abuse. that had reached the end of its service life and Executive Staff Leadership Executive Staff Leadership As Deputy Commissioner of Re-entry, Randall that are proven to reduce offenders’ risk for Koester