§ 42-56-5.1. Justice reinvestment.
(a) The department, in conjunction with the performance management staff at the office of management and budget, shall monitor the implementation of justice reinvestment policies for the period from 2017 to 2022, utilizing a benefit-cost model, such as the one developed and supported by the Pew-MacArthur Results First Initiative, including:
(1) Adoption and use of screening and assessment tools to inform judicial and executive branch decisions regarding arraignment and bail, pretrial conditions and supervision, probation and parole supervision, correctional programs, and parole release;
(2) Use of court rules designed to accelerate the disposition and improve the procedural fairness of pretrial decisions, including violations of bail, filing, deferred sentence, and probation;
(3) Use of judicial sentencing benchmarks designed to:
(i) Guide purposeful, limited probation and suspended sentence terms; and
(ii) Achieve proportionate sanctions for violations;
(4) Progress by the department of corrections, division of rehabilitative services, in achieving the initiatives required by § 42-56-7;
(5) The feasibility of implementing additional law enforcement training in responding to people with behavioral health and substance abuse needs, and of providing for one or more suitable locations for such people to be referred for treatment; and
(6) Barriers to reentry and the availability and effectiveness of programs designed to increase employability and employment of people in the criminal justice system.
(b) The department shall attempt to report on data analyzing key decision points with information broken out by offense, risk, and appropriate demographic data whenever available. The report must provide, or report on efforts to provide, relevant measures including the following:
(1) The number of people for whom a pre-arraignment report is conducted under § 12-13-24.1, and the number who are affected by each subdivision of subsection (a) of this section;
(2) The number of people who are eligible for pre-trial diversion opportunities and the number of people selected for diversion programs;
(3) Length of probation terms and suspended sentences imposed;
(4) Sanctions imposed by probation officers and by courts and the violations triggering the sanctions;
(5) Pre-trial lengths of stay including length prior to probation violation hearings;
(6) Volume and characteristics of people on probation caseloads, including limited and high intensity caseloads;
(7) Restitution amounts imposed and percentage of collections by increment of time under correctional control;
(8) Community-based cognitive behavioral treatment programs funded, including the amount of funding received by each program and the number of high-risk probation clients served;
(9) Batterers intervention programs funded to increase or refine treatment, including the amount of funding received by each program and the number of clients served; and
(10) Amounts of victim restitution assessed and collected.
History of Section.P.L. 2017, ch. 346, § 4; P.L. 2017, ch. 352, § 4.
Structure Rhode Island General Laws
Title 42 - State Affairs and Government
Chapter 42-56 - Corrections Department
Section 42-56-1. - Declaration of policy.
Section 42-56-2. - Establishment of department — Director.
Section 42-56-3. - Transfer of functions from the department of human services.
Section 42-56-4. - Organization of department.
Section 42-56-5. - Director to be the appointing authority.
Section 42-56-5.1. - Justice reinvestment.
Section 42-56-6. - Management of institutions.
Section 42-56-7. - Parole and probation.
Section 42-56-8. - Departmental seal.
Section 42-56-9. - Authority of department broadly construed.
Section 42-56-10. - Powers of the director.
Section 42-56-11 - — 42-56-13. Repealed.
Section 42-56-14. - Buildings and grounds comprising institutions.
Section 42-56-14.1. - Statutory references to former institutions.
Section 42-56-15. - References to jailers and jail keepers.
Section 42-56-16. - Deputy warden and employees, women’s division, adult correctional institutions.
Section 42-56-17. - Identification and description of inmates.
Section 42-56-18. - Inmate furloughs.
Section 42-56-19. - Educational and vocational training unit.
Section 42-56-20. - Care and employment of short term prisoners.
Section 42-56-20.1. - Repealed.
Section 42-56-20.2. - Community confinement.
Section 42-56-20.3. - Community correctional program for women offenders.
Section 42-56-20.4. - Repealed.
Section 42-56-20.5. - Establishment of a women’s transitional housing facility.
Section 42-56-20.6. - Restitution mandatory — Prior to community confinement.
Section 42-56-21.1. - Notification upon work release.
Section 42-56-21.2. - Restitution mandatory — Prior to work release.
Section 42-56-22. - Labor by persons committed on mesne process or to answer criminal charge.
Section 42-56-23. - Body of deceased inmate.
Section 42-56-24. - Earned time for good behavior or program participation or completion.
Section 42-56-26. - Additional time allowed for meritorious service.
Section 42-56-27. - Clothing and payment of discharged prisoners.
Section 42-56-28. - Prisoners previously sentenced.
Section 42-56-29. - Receiving and orientation unit — Study of incoming prisoners.
Section 42-56-30. - Classification board.
Section 42-56-31. - Determination of classification and rehabilitation programs of prisoners.
Section 42-56-32. - Classification unit.
Section 42-56-33. - Training school for youth.
Section 42-56-34. - Designation of land and buildings for training school for youth.
Section 42-56-36. - Transfer of powers and functions from department of corrections.
Section 42-56-37. - Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) testing.
Section 42-56-38. - Assessment of costs.
Section 42-56-38.1. - Prisoner telephone use.
Section 42-56-38.2. - Furnishing of health records.
Section 42-56-39. - A prison impact statement.
Section 42-56-40. - Transfer of foreign convicted offenders under treaty.