Reentry Plan Elements
Transition begins at reception, with assessing criminal risk factors that, if addressed effectively, will enhance the likelihood of successful integration in the community and reduce recidivism.
A comprehensive inmate case plan is developed for all inmates once they are received at their “permanent” unit. It is reviewed and updated whenever the inmate transfers to a new unit, but at least annually.
Inmates are prepared for community living through specific interventions related to their case plan, such as work, education, focused treatment programs, and release planning.
Staff hold inmates and offenders accountable by providing both positive and corrective responses to offender behavior, by serving as pro-social role models, affirming pro-social behavior and teaching offenders pro-social skills and by addressing in firm, fair, and appropriate ways anti-social attitudes, beliefs and behaviors.
Offenders have the opportunity to develop healthy relationships with their family and children, when appropriate, in order to build pro-social community support and break the intergenerational cycle of crime.
Transition from incarceration to community is carefully planned collaboratively by both institution and community corrections staff, coordinated with inmates and community stakeholders and developed in full consideration of the concerns of victims.
Community Corrections develops a case plan for paroled inmates and supervises consistent with the case plan.
Programs and services provided to offenders are outcome, research and evidence-based.
Staff support and reflect the Department’s values in all aspects of their work.
The ADC Scorecard uses performance measures to track success and inspire continuous improvement while providing staff and stakeholders with an objective assessment of winning!
“The TPC Reentry Handbook has been developed as a resource for a broad range of stakeholders involved in improving transition and reentry practices”.
Chapters comprising this manual are:
transition and reentry—a key public policy issue; the Transition from Prison to the Community (TPC) model;
why and how to take on the challenge of transition and reentry
lessons from the eight TPC states implementing the TPC model
case management—a critical element of the TPC model
TPC performance measurement framework
And emerging issues, challenges, and opportunities.
This handbook is designed for teams of correctional and non-correctional staff at the policy, management, and line staff levels who have been charged with implementing improvements in supervision and case management that support an overall strategy to reduce recidivism and enhance community safety through successful offender reentry”.
Seven chapters are contained in this publication: an overview of the Integrated Case Management (ICM) approach; the critical challenges and strengths of the ICM approach; the nuts and bolts of the ICM approach, how it will look in practice; roles and responsibilities of staff; organizational supports, necessary resources for ICM to succeed at the case level; implementation strategy for agencies committing to ICM; and a final word on organizational and cultural change. Sample documents related to ICM are also included in the appendixes.
This PPT addresses the understanding and implementation of the TPC and ICM model. The National Institute of Corrections (NIC) launched its Transition from Prison to the Community (TPC) Initiative in 2001. From the beginning NIC conceived of the initiative as an effort to draw together and synthesize the best thinking of practitioners and researchers in the field on how to revamp correctional efforts to enhance the successful return of offenders, increase community safety, and reduce recidivism.