Adult Corrections Program Informational Paper 54 Wisconsin Legislative Fiscal Bureau January, 2017 Adult Corrections Program Prepared by Christina D. Carmichael Wisconsin Legislative Fiscal Bureau One East Main, Suite 301 Madison, WI 53703 http://legis.wisconsin.gov/lfb TABLE OF CONTENTS Overview ................................................................................................................................................... 1 Adult Correctional Facilities ..................................................................................................................... 2 Prison System Operating Capacity ........................................................................................................... 4 Contracts for Housing State Inmates ........................................................................................................ 5 Adult Inmate Populations ......................................................................................................................... 9 Bureau of Correctional Enteprises .......................................................................................................... 12 Community Corrections .......................................................................................................................... 18 Sex Offender Registration ...................................................................................................................... 21 GPS Monitoring for Certain Child Sex Offenders and Violators of Certain Orders or Injunctions ...... 28 Appendices ............................................................................................................................................. 34 Appendix I Wisconsin Adult Correctional Facilities ............................................................. 35 Appendix II Department of Corrections Organizational Chart ............................................... 37 Appendix III Department of Corrections 2016-17 Base Budget .............................................. 38 Appendix IV Correctional Facility Operational Costs, 2015-16 .............................................. 40 Appendix V 2015-16 Average Daily Inmate Population Including Contracted Facilities ...... 41 Appendix VI Type of Most Serious Offenses for Inmates Resident on July 1, 2016 .............. 42 Appendix VII Type of Most Serious Offenses for Inmates Admitted to Prison, 2015-16 ........ 43 Appendix VIII Type of Most Serious Offenses for Inmates Released from Prison, 2015-16 .... 44 Appendix IX Badger State Industries Inmate Employees and Average Inmate Hourly Wages, 2015-16 ................................................................................... 45 Appendix X Badger State Industries Year-End Continuing Cash Balance Since 2013-14 .... 46 Appendix XI Correctional Farms Year-End Continuing Cash Balance Since 2013-14 ........... 47 Appendix XII Division of Community Corrections Regions .................................................... 48 Appendix XIII Halfway House Contract Expenditures, 2015-16 ............................................... 49 Appendix XIV 2014-15 Probation and Parole Holds Reimbursed in 2015-16 ........................... 50 Adult Corrections Program In Wisconsin, the care and treatment of adult vices; (b) the Parole Commission; and (c) juve- offenders placed under state supervision by the nile correctional services. courts is provided by the Department of Correc- tions. In fiscal year 2015-16, the Department was The adult correctional services program man- responsible for an average daily population of ages the state's adult correctional facilities, cor- 90,513 individuals, including 22,842 incarcerated rectional field services, and administrative duties. adults and 67,671 in the community. The De- The Division of Adult Corrections (DAI) oper- partment operates 36 adult correctional facilities, ates the state's 20 correctional institutions, 16 including 20 prisons and 16 correctional centers. minimum-security correctional centers, and over- Appendix I provides a map of the locations of sees prison bed contracts. Institutional operations state correctional facilities and a subsequent list- include assigning inmate security levels, desig- ing of each facility. During 2015-16, Corrections nating institutional placement and programming contracted for an average of 49 beds per day with needs, and providing health services, employ- Wisconsin counties and at various federal facili- ment training, and educational programming. The ties. Finally, the Wisconsin Resource Center in Division of Community Corrections (DCC) ad- the Village of Winnebago is operated by the De- ministers correctional field services, including partment of Health Services (DHS), Division of supervising offenders on probation, parole, and Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services, as extended supervision, providing monitoring and a 345-bed medium-security facility for inmates in reporting services to offenders, and administering need of mental health treatment. the intensive sanctions program. In addition to DAI and DCC, adult correctional services in- This paper is divided into the following sec- clude departmentwide administrative services tions: (a) departmental overview; (b) adult cor- provided by: (a) the Secretary's Office, responsi- rectional facilities, including facilities for prison ble for the overall administration of the Depart- contract beds; (c) prison system operating capaci- ment, evaluation of local detention facilities ty; (d) contracts for housing state prisoners in (jails), and victim services and programs; and (b) other facilities; (e) adult inmate populations; (f) the Division of Management Services, responsi- Badger State Industries; (g) private busi- ble for budgeting, fiscal and accounting issues, ness/prison employment work program; (h) cor- information technology, the correctional training rectional farms; (i) community corrections; (j) center, personnel services, procurement, and fa- sex offender registration; and (k) GPS monitoring cilities management. Budgeted funding in 2016- for certain child sex offenders, and violators of 17 for adult correctional services is certain orders or injunctions. $1,150,397,800 and 9,709.22 positions (all funds). The Parole Commission, which is attached to Overview the Department, is responsible for making prison release decisions for inmates. The Commission consists of eight members, including a chairper- The Department of Corrections operates three son who is appointed by the Governor for a two- primary programs: (a) adult correctional ser- year term. The Commission is the final authority 1 in granting discretionary paroles. [For infor- monies that will eventually be allocated to indi- mation on sentencing, see the Legislative Fiscal vidual institutions: overtime salary and fringe Bureau information paper entitled, "Felony Sen- benefits ($39,721,800 GPR), and inmate food tencing and Probation."] Budgeted funding in and supplies ($29,166,400 GPR). 2016-17 for the Commission is $1,282,900 and 13.0 positions. This paper provides information regarding the organization, budget and programs of the De- The juvenile correctional services program partment of Corrections related to the adult cor- manages the state's juvenile facilities, field ser- rectional system. The juvenile justice system and vices, and administrative functions. The Division youth aids are addressed in the Legislative Fiscal of Juvenile Corrections operates the state's two Bureau's informational paper entitled, "Juvenile juvenile facilities and community corrections Justice and Youth Aids Program." Likewise, the programs. Operations include administering state's felony sentencing and probation process is treatment programs, determining eligibility for addressed in the Legislative Fiscal Bureau's in- release of juvenile offenders, and overseeing af- formational paper entitled, "Felony Sentencing tercare services. Budgeted funding in 2016-17 for and Probation." juvenile correctional services is $67,076,100 and 379.10 positions (all funds). An organizational chart of the Department can be found in Appendix II. Appendix III shows that Adult Correctional Facilities the Department's total base budget and number of positions for 2016-17, including all sources of funds, is $1.2 billion with 10,101.32 positions. Of State Facilities this amount, 90.1% is financed from general pur- pose revenues (GPR); 9.7% is program revenue Convicted male adults sentenced to state pris- (PR) from such sources as funds generated from ons are received at the Dodge Correctional Insti- the daily rates charged to counties for juvenile tution Reception Center in Waupun, and convict- corrections and the sale of Badger State Indus- ed female adults are received at the Taycheedah tries and farms products; and 0.2% is financed Correctional Institution in Fond du Lac. After an through federal revenue (FED) such as federal assessment and evaluation period lasting between drug abuse, educational or job assistance pro- four and six weeks, inmates are classified accord- grams.. ing to the degree of security risk they present. Depending on their classification, adult inmates In Appendix III, individual budgetary units are sent to a maximum-, medium-, or minimum- (for example, individual correctional institutions) security facility. In addition to the correctional are separately identified. It should be noted that: institutions and centers, an inmate may also be (a) rent for the Department's Madison facility sent