Key Performance Indicators
Department of Corrections
Mission
We provide secure confinement, reformative programs, and a process of supervised community reintegration to enhance the safety of our communities. Alaska Statute (AS) 44.28.020
Key Performance Indicators
FY2024 Management Plan as of 04/18/2024 (in thousands) | |||||||||
Department of Corrections Totals | Funding | Positions | |||||||
UGF Funds | DGF Funds | Other Funds | Federal Funds | Total Funds | Full Time | Part Time | Non Perm | ||
$366,549.5 | $14,355.5 | $22,343.7 | $17,389.6 | $420,638.3 | 2,124 | 0 | 0 |
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Supervised Release
Includes resources for: Administration and Support, Correctional Academy, Probation and Parole Director`s Office, Statewide Probation and Parole, Electronic Monitoring, Community Residential Centers, and the Parole Board. |
Funding | Positions | ||||||
UGF Funds |
DGF Funds |
Other Funds |
Federal Funds |
Total Funds |
Full Time |
Part Time |
Non Perm |
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$57,533.1 | $2,608.0 | $187.8 | $50.0 | $60,378.9 | 302 | 0 | 0 |
- Target: Increase the percent of probationers and parolees who satisfy their court ordered conditions of release.
- Target: Reduce criminal recidivism.
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Reformative Programs
Includes resources for: Administration and Support, Education and Vocational Education Programs, Domestic Violence Program, Substance Abuse Treatment, Sex Offender Management Programs, Faith-Based Services, and Behavioral Health Care. |
Funding | Positions | ||||||
UGF Funds |
DGF Funds |
Other Funds |
Federal Funds |
Total Funds |
Full Time |
Part Time |
Non Perm |
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$25,128.1 | $4,093.7 | $2,834.4 | $1,275.0 | $33,331.2 | 103 | 0 | 0 |
- Target: Increase the number of individuals who complete an institutional or community-based substance abuse treatment program.
- Target: Increase the number of offenders who receive a General Education Development (GED) diploma while incarcerated.
- Target: Increase the number of sex offender probationers who complete both a sex offender management program and who receive polygraph testing while on probation.
Performance Detail
Priority 1: Secure Confinement |
Priority 2: Supervised Release |
Target #1: Increase the percent of probationers and parolees who satisfy their court ordered conditions of release..
Proactively supervising probationers and parolees will enhance their successful re-entry in their community, increasing the number of successful discharges. Proactive supervision targets proven supervision methods that are known to decrease the likelihood of failure in the community or causing future harm through assessing risk to reoffend, employing motivational interviewing techniques and tailoring supervision strategies to address criminogenic needs (i.e., housing, treatment, criminal attitudes, pro-social activities, etc.). However, identifying available or limited community resources for probationers and parolees create significant challenges in areas such as housing, employment, substance abuse treatment, mental health counseling, etc. Over the last several years statutory changes and resuming normal operations, which had previously been hindered by COVID, have impacted these statistics. Target Last Modified: 11/17/2023 |
Target #2: Reduce criminal recidivism..
The department continues its efforts for successful prisoner re-entry in order to reduce criminal recidivism and will report new information accordingly. Target Last Modified: 11/17/2023 |
Priority 3: Reformative Programs |
Target #1: Increase the number of individuals who complete an institutional or community-based substance abuse treatment program..
Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT) interventions and treatment options the Department offers include: • Screening of all offenders entering facility for an Opioid Use Disorder (OUD) • Substance Use Disorders (SUD) assessments as needed to further determine seriousness of OUD needs • Methadone and buprenorphine bridging for up to 30 days for offenders remanded with a verified community prescription with tapering off medications starting after the initial 30 days During FY2023, Medication Assisted Treatment — Reentry (MATR) services continued at Anchorage Correctional Complex (Anchorage), Hiland Mountain Correctional Center (Eagle River), Fairbanks Correctional Center (Fairbanks), Goose Creek Correctional Center (Wasilla), Wildwood Correctional Center (Kenai), Anvil Mountain Correctional Center (Nome), Lemon Creek Correctional Center (Juneau), and Spring Creek Correctional Center (Seward). Continuation of MATR for pregnant offenders as long as therapeutically necessary to ensure the overall health of the mother and child. Offenders are provided resources both while incarcerated and when returning to the community to include education, counseling, help with housing, connection to benefits and other associated needs. Extended-release naltrexone is available to offenders meeting criteria, prior to releasing back into the community. Offenders releasing back into the community are offered a Narcan Rescue Kit to help in the event they or someone they know experiences an overdose due to the use of opiates. Intensive Outpatient Substance Abuse Treatment (IOPSAT) provides a planned regimen of treatment, consisting of regularly scheduled sessions within a structured program that uses evidenced based interventions. Within the Alaska DOC, IOPSATs are about 15 weeks long and individuals are provided 15 hours of group per week plus individual sessions. The female IOPSAT program uses gender specific curriculum, Criminal Conduct and Substance Abuse Treatment. The male program uses New Directions and Living in Balance. In FY2023 IOPSAT services were provided at Goose Creek Correctional Center (Wasilla), Fairbanks Correctional Center (Fairbanks), Anvil Mountain Correctional Center (Nome), Hiland Mountain Correctional Center (Eagle River), and Palmer Correctional Center (Palmer). In addition to facility-based services, the department also offers community based Intensive Outpatient (IOP) services in Anchorage and Fairbanks. Institutional Residential Substance Abuse Treatment (RSAT) services use a modified therapeutic community (MTC) model of treatment. MTC"s use a combination of counseling, group therapy, and peer activities to promote multi-dimensional change of the whole person including drug abstinence, elimination of antisocial behavior, and the development of prosocial behavior, attitudes, and values. Studies find that MTC participants show improvements in substance use, criminal behavior, and mental health symptoms. Both male and female RSATs are about six months long and require 25 hours of group per week plus individual sessions. In FY2023 RSAT services were provided at Hiland Mountain Correctional Center (Eagle River), Wildwood Correctional Center (Kenai), and Palmer Correctional Center (Palmer). Although the Department has been able to increase the number of services being provided, staff recruitment and retention continues to be a challenge. Target Last Modified: 11/17/2023 |
Target #2: Increase the number of offenders who receive a General Education Development (GED) diploma while incarcerated..
In FY2023, DOC had 58 test takers and 22 GED completions; down from FY2022, when DOC had 112 test takers and 48 GED completions. Wildwood Correctional Center achieved the most success with 13 test takers with nine completions. A key factor in the decline of GED testing and completion included changes to testing protocols and modifying testing parameters affecting DOC`s dual designation role of both GED Instructor and Proctor. In February 2023 DOC received waivers and testing resumed. Other inhibitive factors included malfunctions in the GED test prep and testing software as well as education staff turnover and prolonged position vacancies. Ten of the nineteen Education Coordinator positions experienced a vacancy period during FY2023. Education staff, in coordination with DOC Information Technology and Networking teams and educational software vendors, were also able to reformat and plan the redistribution software updates to student computers which enabled more efficient, differentiated GED instruction. To mitigate gaps in GED instruction and testing resulting from vacancies, DOC Education established contracts with external vendors to provide regular instruction and proctoring services at some identified underserved sites; however, some locations received no response for Request for Proposals (RFP). In FY2023, the focus was reestablishing the full spectrum of educational programming, including classes historically contracted pre-pandemic, and establishing a functional offline digital infrastructure to compliment instructor efforts and expand course offerings. With many challenges of early FY2023 resolved or being actively mitigated, it is anticipated that rates of participation in Adult Basic Education and successful completion of GEDs will increase throughout FY2024. Target Last Modified: 11/17/2023 |
Target #3: Increase the number of sex offender probationers who complete both a sex offender management program and who receive polygraph testing while on probation..
During FY2023, a total of 770 convicted sex offenders on community supervision received polygraph exams. An additional 58 polygraphs were conducted with offenders participating in treatment programs at Goose Creek Correctional Center (Wasilla), Wildwood Correctional Center (Kenai), and Lemon Creek Correctional Center (Juneau). The Department continues to work toward expanding the number of polygraphs administered statewide. Since FY2016, the Department has seen a steady increase in the number of polygraphs conducted statewide. The number of polygraphs provided has increased by 61% percent. This has been accomplished through a collaborative effort between Probation and Parole and Health and Rehabilitation Services Sex Offender Management Programs. In addition to conducting polygraphs on community-based sex offenders, the Department"s Sex Offender Management Programs was able to provide treatment to offenders statewide in community and institutional based sex offender treatment programming. Sex offender treatment programs utilize cognitive behavioral treatment interventions to address deviant sexual and antisocial behaviors while seeking to increase prosocial behaviors in sex offenders. The programming is based on the risk, needs and responsivity model. Cognitive behavioral treatment models paired with the Containment model have proven to be the most effective tools in managing the sex offender population. Sex offender treatment programs are available at: Anvil Mountain Correctional Center (Nome) — Community based services Wildwood Correctional Center (Kenai) Hiland Mountain Correctional Center (Eagle River) Lemon Creek Correctional Center (Juneau) Goose Creek Correctional Center (Wasilla) Palmer Correctional Center (Palmer) Sex offender treatment continues to be a specialized field that is often difficult to recruit providers. In an effort to recruit providers the Department continues to partner with the UAA Center for Human Development to provide trainings related to the treatment and management of sex offenders. Target Last Modified: 11/17/2023 |
Last refreshed: 04/18/2024 05:00 pm