SubTitle18-101i-1_18-101i-5. Community Input Into the Comprehensive State Community Correction Plan  


Sec. 18-101i-1. Definitions
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(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)

Sec. 18-101i-2. Comprehensive state community correction plan
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(a) Pursuant to subsection (b) of Section 18-101i of the General Statutes, the Commissioner of Correction shall develop and revise annually a comprehensive state community correction plan (hereinafter referred to as the "community correction plan" or "plan").

(b) The plan will consider the goals, objectives, priorities and service needs regarding community corrections on a statewide basis, and within each of the community correction service areas.

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

Sec. 18-101i-3. Substance of the community correction plan
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In general, the community correction plan will include the following:

(a) Goals, objectives, priorities and general concerns pertaining to the provision of community correctional services.

(b) An assessment of client needs (employing client population ratio data, as necessary, and the availability of needed services.)

(c) A description of the levels and types of services to be provided by residential programs, non-residential programs and volunteer programs including both client and non-client services and public information and education.

(d) Proposals for innovative services and pilot projects.

(e) Procedures for coordination of services and programs.

(f) Projected budget for services to be provided.

(Effective March 31, 1987)

Sec. 18-101i-4. Chronological scheme for community correction plan input [Repealed]
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Repealed June 11, 2014.

(Effective March 31, 1987; Repealed June 11, 2014)

Sec. 18-101i-5. Community input into the community correction plan
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Copies of the community correction plan will be maintained at, and may be obtained through the Director of Community Services, Department of Correction, 340 Capitol Ave., 3rd Floor, Hartford, CT. Any member of the public who wishes to make a recommendation concerning the plan may do so by writing to the Director of Community Services. Any recommended revision to the community correction plan submitted by a member of the public should include a statement of facts and argument in support of the proposed revision.

(Effective October 28, 1988)