Sec.18-101i-1. Definitions

(a) "Department" means the department of correction.

(b) "Commissioner" means the commissioner of correction.

(c) "Residential programs" means those offered in "halfway houses", providing twenty-four hour care, supervision, and supportive services to inmates who are supervised in the community. Residential program services are those provided by private non-profit community or locally based organizations or units of local government.

(d) "Nonresidential programs" means those programs providing daytime or episodic community correction services to inmates who are supervised in the community and their families, or victims of crime. Nonresidential program services are those provided by private non-profit community or locally based organizations or units of local government.

(e) "Volunteer programs" means those programs offering services provided by unpaid volunteers under the auspices of private, non-profit community or locally based organizations or units of local government.

(f) "Service areas" means the five community correction geographic areas in the state corresponding to the health systems agency regions established pursuant to the National Health Planning Resources and Development Act, Public Law 93-641.

(g) "Program plan" means that document issued annually by the commissioner pursuant to these regulations which describes in detail the department's plans in community corrections.

(h) "Client Population Ratio" means the number of correctional clients returning to a particular service area compared to the total number released in need of service. Client Population Ratios for all service areas are employed as necessary by the department along with other criteria to establish levels of services needed in each service area.

(Effective March 31, 1987; Amended July 28, 1997)