HB-4231, As Passed House, June 11, 2019
SUBSTITUTE FOR
HOUSE BILL NO. 4231
(As amended by the House June 11, 2019)
A bill to make appropriations for the department of
corrections for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2020; and to
provide for the expenditure of the appropriations.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
PART 1
LINE-ITEM APPROPRIATIONS
Sec. 101. There is appropriated for the department of
corrections for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2020, from the
following funds:
DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS
APPROPRIATION SUMMARY
Average population............................... 38,445
Full-time equated unclassified positions........... 16.0
Full-time equated classified positions......... 13,778.3
GROSS APPROPRIATION.................................... $ [2,007,503,300]
House Bill No. 4231 as amended June 11, 2019
Interdepartmental grant revenues:
Total interdepartmental grants and intradepartmental
transfers............................................ 0
ADJUSTED GROSS APPROPRIATION........................... $ [2,007,503,300]
Federal revenues:
Total federal revenues................................. 5,323,700
Special revenue funds:
Total local revenues................................... 11,687,200
Total private revenues................................. 0
Total other state restricted revenues.................. 57,992,400
State general fund/general purpose..................... $ [1,932,500,000]
Sec. 102. DEPARTMENTAL ADMINISTRATION AND SUPPORT
Full-time equated unclassified positions......... 16.0
Full-time equated classified positions.......... 322.0
Unclassified salaries--16.0 FTE positions.............. $ 1,760,700
Administrative hearings officers....................... 3,136,800
Budget and operations administration--241.0 FTE
positions............................................ 31,886,300
Compensatory buyout and union leave bank............... 100
County jail reimbursement program...................... 14,814,600
Equipment and special maintenance...................... 1,559,700
Executive direction--20.0 FTE positions................ 4,299,400
Judicial data warehouse user fees...................... 50,600
New custody staff training............................. 9,491,100
Prison industries operations--61.0 FTE positions....... 9,989,100
Property management.................................... 2,255,100
Prosecutorial and detainer expenses.................... 4,801,000
House Bill No. 4231 as amended June 11, 2019
Sheriffs' coordinating and training office............. 100,000
Worker's compensation.................................. 10,052,900
GROSS APPROPRIATION.................................... $ 94,197,400
Appropriated from:
Federal revenues:
DOJ, prison rape elimination act grant................. 674,700
Special revenue funds:
Correctional industries revolving fund................. 9,989,100
Correctional industries revolving fund 110............. 721,600
Jail reimbursement program fund........................ 5,900,000
Local corrections officer training fund................ 100,000
Program and special equipment fund..................... 100
State general fund/general purpose..................... $ 76,811,900
Sec. 103. OFFENDER SUCCESS ADMINISTRATION
Full-time equated classified positions.......... 344.4
Community corrections comprehensive plans and services. $ 11,658,000
Drunk driver jail reduction and community treatment
program.............................................. 1,440,100
Education/skilled trades/career readiness programs--
266.4 FTE positions.................................. 38,331,600
Enhanced food technology program--12.0 FTE positions... 2,000,000
Federally qualified health center pilot................ 100
Offender success community partners.................... 14,500,000
Offender success federal grants........................ 751,000
Offender success programming........................... 11,772,800
Offender success services--66.0 FTE positions.......... 29,561,400
[Public safety initiative............................... 4,000,000]
Residential probation diversions....................... 17,825,500
House Bill No. 4231 as amended June 11, 2019
GROSS APPROPRIATION.................................... $ [131,840,500]
Appropriated from:
Federal revenues:
DOJ, prisoner reintegration............................ 751,000
Federal education funding.............................. 1,540,800
Special revenue funds:
Program and special equipment fund..................... 27,093,100
State general fund/general purpose..................... $ [102,455,600]
Sec. 104. FIELD OPERATIONS ADMINISTRATION
Full-time equated classified positions........ 2,181.5
Criminal justice reinvestment.......................... $ 5,498,400
Detroit Detention Center--69.1 FTE positions........... 11,412,200
Detroit Reentry Center--237.9 FTE positions............ 30,561,100
Field operations--1,843.5 FTE positions................ 217,784,600
Parole board operations--31.0 FTE positions............ 3,793,300
Parole/probation services.............................. 940,000
Residential alternative to prison program.............. 1,500,000
GROSS APPROPRIATION.................................... $ 271,489,600
Appropriated from:
Special revenue funds:
Local - community tether program reimbursement......... 275,000
Local revenues......................................... 11,412,200
Parole and probation oversight fees.................... 4,000,000
Parole and probation oversight fees set-aside.......... 940,000
Reentry center offender reimbursements................. 10,000
Tether program participant contributions............... 2,630,500
State general fund/general purpose..................... $ 252,221,900
Sec. 105. CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES ADMINISTRATION
Full-time equated classified positions.......... 663.0
Central records--35.0 FTE positions.................... $ 4,646,800
Correctional facilities administration--31.0 FTE
positions............................................ 5,991,400
Housing inmates in federal institutions................ 511,000
Inmate housing fund.................................... 100
Inmate legal services.................................. 290,900
Leased beds and alternatives to leased beds............ 100
Prison food service--352.0 FTE positions............... 71,131,100
Prison store operations--34.0 FTE positions............ 3,331,400
Public works programs.................................. 1,000,000
Transportation--211.0 FTE positions.................... 29,938,400
GROSS APPROPRIATION.................................... $ 116,841,200
Appropriated from:
Federal revenues:
DOJ-BOP, federal prisoner reimbursement................ 411,000
SSA-SSI, incentive payment............................. 272,000
Special revenue funds:
Correctional industries revolving fund 110............. 583,900
Public works user fees................................. 1,000,000
Resident stores........................................ 3,331,400
State general fund/general purpose..................... $ 111,242,900
Sec. 106. HEALTH CARE
Full-time equated classified positions........ 1,473.3
Clinical complexes--1,035.3 FTE positions.............. $ 145,977,800
Health care administration--20.0 FTE positions......... 3,815,200
Healthy Michigan plan administration--12.0 FTE
positions............................................ 982,700
Hepatitis C treatment.................................. 6,735,600
Interdepartmental grant to health and human services,
eligibility specialists.............................. 121,500
Mental health and substance abuse treatment services--
406.0 FTE positions.................................. 50,924,800
Prisoner health care services.......................... 86,892,900
Vaccination program.................................... 691,200
GROSS APPROPRIATION.................................... $ 296,141,700
Appropriated from:
Federal revenues:
DOJ, Office of Justice programs, RSAT.................. 250,200
Federal revenues and reimbursements.................... 389,200
Special revenue funds:
Prisoner health care copayments........................ 257,200
State general fund/general purpose..................... $ 295,245,100
Sec. 107. CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES
Average population............................. 38,445
Full-time equated classified positions........ 8,794.1
Alger Correctional Facility - Munising--259.0 FTE
positions............................................ $ 31,510,900
Baraga Correctional Facility - Baraga--295.8 FTE
positions............................................ 36,622,100
Bellamy Creek Correctional Facility - Ionia--391.2 FTE
positions............................................ 45,578,500
Carson City Correctional Facility - Carson City--423.4
FTE positions........................................ 50,103,600
Central Michigan Correctional Facility - St. Louis--
388.6 FTE positions.................................. 47,665,900
Charles E. Egeler Correctional Facility - Jackson--
386.6 FTE positions.................................. 47,136,400
Chippewa Correctional Facility - Kincheloe--443.6 FTE
positions............................................ 52,687,300
Cooper Street Correctional Facility - Jackson--262.1
FTE positions........................................ 30,716,700
Earnest C. Brooks Correctional Facility - Muskegon--
248.2 FTE positions.................................. 31,058,100
G. Robert Cotton Correctional Facility - Jackson--
393.0 FTE positions.................................. 46,141,700
Gus Harrison Correctional Facility - Adrian--443.6 FTE
positions............................................ 51,430,500
Ionia Correctional Facility - Ionia--287.3 FTE
positions............................................ 35,236,300
Kinross Correctional Facility - Kincheloe--258.6 FTE
positions............................................ 33,574,700
Lakeland Correctional Facility - Coldwater--275.4 FTE
positions............................................ 33,883,000
Macomb Correctional Facility - New Haven--292.8 FTE
positions............................................ 35,755,800
Marquette Branch Prison - Marquette--319.7 FTE
positions............................................ 39,115,100
Michigan Reformatory - Ionia--317.8 FTE positions...... 36,388,100
Muskegon Correctional Facility - Muskegon--206.0 FTE
positions............................................ 26,478,300
Newberry Correctional Facility - Newberry--198.1 FTE
positions............................................ 24,989,900
Oaks Correctional Facility - Eastlake--289.4 FTE
positions............................................ 35,358,300
Parnall Correctional Facility - Jackson--264.1 FTE
positions............................................ 29,818,600
Richard A. Handlon Correctional Facility - Ionia--
252.7 FTE positions.................................. 31,116,300
Saginaw Correctional Facility - Freeland--276.9 FTE
positions............................................ 34,390,100
Special Alternative Incarceration Program - Cassidy
Lake--120.0 FTE positions............................ 14,325,300
St. Louis Correctional Facility - St. Louis--303.6 FTE
positions............................................ 38,496,600
Thumb Correctional Facility - Lapeer--283.6 FTE
positions............................................ 34,269,200
Womens Huron Valley Correctional Complex - Ypsilanti--
504.1 FTE positions.................................. 61,141,400
Woodland Correctional Facility - Whitmore Lake--277.9
FTE positions........................................ 33,516,900
Northern region administration and support--43.0 FTE
positions............................................ 4,406,900
Southern region administration and support--88.0 FTE
positions............................................ 20,640,500
GROSS APPROPRIATION.................................... $ 1,073,553,000
Appropriated from:
House Bill No. 4231 as amended June 11, 2019
Federal revenues:
DOJ, state criminal assistance program................. 1,034,800
Special revenue funds:
State restricted fees, revenues, and reimbursements.... 102,100
State general fund/general purpose..................... $ 1,072,416,100
Sec. 108. INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Information technology services and projects........... $ 23,439,900
GROSS APPROPRIATION.................................... $ 23,439,900
Appropriated from:
Special revenue funds:
Correctional industries revolving fund 110............. 179,900
Parole and probation oversight fees set-aside.......... 706,200
Program and special equipment fund..................... 447,300
State general fund/general purpose..................... $ 22,106,500
PART 2
PROVISIONS CONCERNING APPROPRIATIONS
FOR FISCAL YEAR 2019-2020
GENERAL SECTIONS
Sec. 201. Pursuant to section 30 of article IX of the state
constitution of 1963, total state spending from state sources under
part 1 for fiscal year 2019-2020 is [$1,990,492,400.00] and state
spending from state sources to be paid to local units of government
for fiscal year 2019-2020 is [$122,635,700.00]. The itemized
statement below identifies appropriations from which spending to
local units of government will occur:
House Bill No. 4231 as amended June 11, 2019
DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS
County jail reimbursement program...................... $ 14,814,600
Community corrections comprehensive plans and
services............................................. 11,658,000
Drunk driver jail reduction and community
treatment program.................................... 1,440,100
Field operations....................................... 66,596,400
Leased beds and alternatives to leased beds............ 100
[Public safety initiative............................... 4,000,000]
Prosecutorial and detainer expenses.................... 4,801,000
Residential alternative to prison program.............. 1,500,000
Residential probation diversions....................... 17,825,500
TOTAL.................................................. $ [122,635,700]
Sec. 202. The appropriations authorized under this part and
part 1 are subject to the management and budget act, 1984 PA 431,
MCL 18.1101 to 18.1594.
Sec. 203. As used in this part and part 1:
(a) "Administrative segregation" means confinement for
maintenance of order or discipline to a cell or room apart from
accommodations provided for inmates who are participating in
programs of the facility.
(b) "Cost per prisoner" means the sum total of the funds
appropriated under part 1 for the following, divided by the
projected prisoner population in fiscal year 2019-2020:
(i) New custody staff training.
(ii) Education/skilled trades/career readiness programs.
(iii) Offender success programming.
(iv) Central records.
(v) Correctional facilities administration.
(vi) Inmate legal services.
(vii) Prison food service.
(viii) Prison store operations.
(ix) Transportation.
(x) Clinical complexes.
(xi) Hepatitis C treatment.
(xii) Mental health and substance abuse treatment services.
(xiii) Prisoner health care services.
(xiv) Vaccination program.
(xv) Correctional facilities.
(xvi) Northern and southern region administration and support.
(c) "Department" or "MDOC" means the Michigan department of
corrections.
(d) "DOJ" means the United States Department of Justice.
(e) "DOJ-BOP" means the DOJ Bureau of Prisons.
(f) "EPIC program" means the department's effective process
improvement and communications program.
(g) "Evidence-based" means a decision-making process that
integrates the best available research, clinician expertise, and
client characteristics.
(h) "Federally qualified health center" means that term as
defined in section 1396d(l)(2)(B) of the social security act, 42
USC 1396d.
(i) "FTE" means full-time equated.
(j) "Goal" means the intended or projected result of a
comprehensive corrections plan or community corrections program to
reduce repeat offending, criminogenic and high-risk behaviors,
prison commitment rates, the length of stay in a jail, or to
improve the utilization of a jail.
(k) "Jail" means a facility operated by a local unit of
government for the physical detention and correction of persons
charged with or convicted of criminal offenses.
(l) "MDHHS" means the Michigan department of health and human
services.
(m) "Medicaid benefit" means a benefit paid or payable under a
program for medical assistance under the social welfare act, 1939
PA 280, MCL 400.1 to 400.119b.
(n) "Objective risk and needs assessment" means an evaluation
of an offender's criminal history; the offender's noncriminal
history; and any other factors relevant to the risk the offender
would present to the public safety, including, but not limited to,
having demonstrated a pattern of violent behavior, and a criminal
record that indicates a pattern of violent offenses.
(o) "OCC" means the office of community corrections.
(p) "Offender eligibility criteria" means particular criminal
violations, state felony sentencing guidelines descriptors, and
offender characteristics developed by advisory boards and approved
by local units of government that identify the offenders suitable
for community corrections programs funded through the office of
community corrections.
(q) "Offender success" means that an offender has, with the
support of the community, intervention of the field agent, and
benefit of any participation in programs and treatment, made an
adjustment while at liberty in the community such that he or she
has not been sentenced to or returned to prison for the conviction
of a new crime or the revocation of probation or parole.
(r) "Offender target populations" means felons or
misdemeanants who would likely be sentenced to imprisonment in a
state correctional facility or jail, who would not likely increase
the risk to the public safety based on an objective risk and needs
assessment that indicates that the offender can be safely treated
and supervised in the community.
(s) "Offender who would likely be sentenced to imprisonment"
means either of the following:
(i) A felon or misdemeanant who receives a sentencing
disposition that appears to be in place of incarceration in a state
correctional facility or jail, according to historical local
sentencing patterns.
(ii) A currently incarcerated felon or misdemeanant who is
granted early release from incarceration to a community corrections
program or who is granted early release from incarceration as a
result of a community corrections program.
(t) "Programmatic success" means that the department program
or initiative has ensured that the offender has accomplished all of
the following:
(i) Obtained employment, has enrolled or participated in a
program of education or job training, or has investigated all bona
fide employment opportunities.
(ii) Obtained housing.
(iii) Obtained a state identification card.
(u) "Recidivism" means that term as defined in section 1 of
2017 PA 5, MCL 798.31.
(v) "RSAT" means residential substance abuse treatment.
(w) "Serious emotional disturbance" means that term as defined
in section 100d(2) of the mental health code, 1974 PA 258, MCL
330.1100d.
(x) "Serious mental illness" means that term as defined in
section 100d(3) of the mental health code, 1974 PA 258, MCL
330.1100d.
(y) "SSA" means the United States Social Security
Administration.
(z) "SSA-SSI" means SSA supplemental security income.
Sec. 204. The department shall use the internet to fulfill the
reporting requirements of this part. This requirement may include
transmission of reports via electronic mail to the recipients
identified for each reporting requirement or it may include
placement of reports on an internet or intranet site.
Sec. 205. Funds appropriated in part 1 shall not be used for
the purchase of foreign goods or services, or both, if
competitively priced and of comparable quality American goods or
services, or both, are available. Preference shall be given to
goods or services, or both, manufactured or provided by Michigan
businesses, if they are competitively priced and of comparable
quality. In addition, preference shall be given to goods or
services, or both, that are manufactured or provided by Michigan
businesses owned and operated by veterans, if they are
competitively priced and of comparable quality.
Sec. 206. The department shall not take disciplinary action
against an employee or a prisoner for communicating with a member
of the legislature or his or her staff.
Sec. 207. The department shall prepare a report on out-of-
state travel expenses not later than January 1 of each year. The
travel report shall be a listing of all travel by classified and
unclassified employees outside this state in the immediately
preceding fiscal year that was funded in whole or in part with
funds appropriated in the department's budget. The report shall be
submitted to the senate and house appropriations committees, the
senate and house fiscal agencies, and the state budget office. The
report shall include the following information:
(a) The dates of each travel occurrence.
(b) The total transportation and related costs of each travel
occurrence, including the proportion funded with state general
fund/general purpose revenues, the proportion funded with state
restricted revenues, the proportion funded with federal revenues,
and the proportion funded with other revenues.
Sec. 208. Funds appropriated in part 1 shall not be used by
the department to hire a person to provide legal services that are
the responsibility of the attorney general. This prohibition does
not apply to legal services for bonding activities and for those
outside services that the attorney general authorizes.
Sec. 209. Not later than November 30, the state budget office
shall prepare and transmit a report that provides for estimates of
the total general fund/general purpose appropriation lapses at the
close of the prior fiscal year. This report shall summarize the
projected year-end general fund/general purpose appropriation
lapses by major departmental program or program areas. The report
shall be transmitted to the chairpersons of the senate and house
appropriations committees and the senate and house fiscal agencies.
Sec. 210. (1) In addition to the funds appropriated in part 1,
there is appropriated an amount not to exceed $10,000,000.00 for
federal contingency funds. These funds are not available for
expenditure until they have been transferred to another line item
in part 1 under section 393(2) of the management and budget act,
1984 PA 431, MCL 18.1393.
(2) In addition to the funds appropriated in part 1, there is
appropriated an amount not to exceed $10,000,000.00 for state
restricted contingency funds. These funds are not available for
expenditure until they have been transferred to another line item
in part 1 under section 393(2) of the management and budget act,
1984 PA 431, MCL 18.1393.
(3) In addition to the funds appropriated in part 1, there is
appropriated an amount not to exceed $2,000,000.00 for local
contingency funds. These funds are not available for expenditure
until they have been transferred to another line item in part 1
under section 393(2) of the management and budget act, 1984 PA 431,
MCL 18.1393.
(4) In addition to the funds appropriated in part 1, there is
appropriated an amount not to exceed $2,000,000.00 for private
contingency funds. These funds are not available for expenditure
until they have been transferred to another line item in part 1
under section 393(2) of the management and budget act, 1984 PA 431,
MCL 18.1393.
Sec. 211. The department shall cooperate with the department
of technology, management, and budget to maintain a searchable
website accessible by the public at no cost that includes, but is
not limited to, all of the following for the department:
(a) Fiscal year-to-date expenditures by category.
(b) Fiscal year-to-date expenditures by appropriation unit.
(c) Fiscal year-to-date payments to a selected vendor,
including the vendor name, payment date, payment amount, and
payment description.
(d) The number of active department employees by job
classification.
(e) Job specifications and wage rates.
Sec. 212. Within 14 days after the release of the executive
budget recommendation, the department shall cooperate with the
state budget office to provide the chairpersons of the senate and
house appropriations committees, the chairpersons of the senate and
house appropriations subcommittees on corrections, and the senate
and house fiscal agencies with an annual report on estimated state
restricted fund balances, state restricted fund projected revenues,
and state restricted fund expenditures for the prior 2 fiscal
years.
Sec. 213. The department shall maintain, on a publicly
accessible website, a department scorecard that identifies, tracks,
and regularly updates key metrics that are used to monitor and
improve the department's performance.
Sec. 214. Total authorized appropriations from all sources
under part 1 for legacy costs for the fiscal year ending September
30, 2020 are estimated at $295,107,000.00. From this amount, total
department appropriations for pension-related legacy costs are
estimated at $143,458,300.00. Total department appropriations for
retiree health care legacy costs are estimated at $151,648,700.00.
Sec. 216. (1) On a quarterly basis, the department shall
report on the number of full-time equated positions in pay status
by civil service classification, including the number of full-time
equated positions in pay status by civil service classification for
each correctional facility, to the senate and house appropriations
subcommittees on corrections, the senate and house fiscal agencies,
the legislative corrections ombudsman, and the state budget office.
This report must include the following:
(a) A detailed accounting of all vacant positions that exist
within the department.
(b) A detailed accounting of all correction officer positions
at each correctional facility, including positions that are filled
and vacant positions, by facility.
(c) A detailed accounting of all vacant positions that are
health care-related.
(d) A detailed accounting of vacant positions that are being
held open for temporarily nonactive employees.
(2) As used in this section, "vacant position" means any
position that has not been filled at any time during the past 12
calendar months.
Sec. 219. (1) Any contract for prisoner telephone services
entered into after the effective date of this section shall include
a condition that fee schedules for prisoner telephone calls,
including rates and any surcharges other than those necessary to
meet program and special equipment costs, be the same as fee
schedules for calls placed from outside of correctional facilities.
(2) Revenues appropriated and collected for program and
special equipment funds shall be considered state restricted
revenue. Funding shall be used for prisoner programming, special
equipment, and security projects. Unexpended funds remaining at the
close of the fiscal year shall not lapse to the general fund but
shall be carried forward and be available for appropriation in
subsequent fiscal years.
(3) The department shall submit a report to the senate and
house appropriations subcommittees on corrections, the senate and
house fiscal agencies, the legislative corrections ombudsman, and
the state budget office by February 1 outlining revenues and
expenditures from program and special equipment funds. The report
shall include all of the following:
(a) A list of all individual projects and purchases financed
with program and special equipment funds in the immediately
preceding fiscal year, the amounts expended on each project or
purchase, and the name of each vendor from which the products or
services were purchased.
(b) A list of planned projects and purchases to be financed
with program and special equipment funds during the current fiscal
year, the amounts to be expended on each project or purchase, and
the name of each vendor from which the products or services will be
purchased.
(c) A review of projects and purchases planned for future
fiscal years from program and special equipment funds.
Sec. 220. The department may charge fees and collect revenues
in excess of appropriations in part 1 not to exceed the cost of
offender services and programming, employee meals, parolee loans,
academic/vocational services, custody escorts, compassionate
visits, union steward activities, and public works programs and
services provided to local units of government or private nonprofit
organizations. The revenues and fees collected are appropriated for
all expenses associated with these services and activities.
Sec. 225. Appropriations in part 1 shall not be expended until
all existing work project authorization available for the same
purposes is exhausted.
Sec. 226. (1) From the unexpended and unencumbered funds
appropriated in 2014 PA 252, 2015 PA 84, 2016 PA 268, 2017 PA 107,
2018 PA 207, and 2018 PA 618 for MDOC physical plant projects
utilizing operating funds, pilot online career high school
education program, new custody officer training, offender
success/local reentry/local reentry services, education/vocational
village enhancements, Ojibway Correctional Facility closure costs
and site maintenance, staff transition costs, Hepatitis C treatment
program, Pugsley Correctional Facility closure costs and site
maintenance, and swift and sure sanctions program – Michigan
rehabilitation services, the following appropriations shall be
made:
(a) $7,393,400.00 for training new custody staff.
(b) $4,567,100.00 for replacing electronic tethers.
(c) $950,000.00 for providing post-traumatic stress disorder
training and wellness support for department employees.
(d) $750,000.00 for demolition of the former Deerfield
Correctional Facility.
(e) $500,000.00 for replacing corrections officer training
binders with electronic equipment.
(f) $200,000.00 for requalifying corrections officers in
handgun training.
(g) $100,000.00 for conducting a study on the most suitable
location for a corrections officer training academy.
(2) The funds appropriated under subsection (1) are considered
work project appropriations for the fiscal year ending September
30, 2020. Any unencumbered or unallotted funds shall not lapse at
the end of the fiscal year and shall be available for expenditure
in succeeding years. The following is in compliance with section
451a of the management and budget act, 1984 PA 431, MCL 18.1451a:
(a) The purposes of the projects are as follows:
(i) To train additional corrections officers to address higher
than normal attrition and decrease the department's overtime costs.
(ii) To replace 6,619 electronic tethers.
(iii) To provide enhanced post-traumatic stress disorder
outreach, employee wellness programming, and mental health
programming for all department employees.
(iv) To demolish the former Deerfield Correctional Facility.
(v) To replace corrections officer training binders with
electronic equipment.
(vi) To requalify corrections officers choosing to be
House Bill No. 4231 as amended June 11, 2019
requalified in handgun training.
(vii) To conduct a study on the most suitable location for a
corrections officer training academy.
(b) The projects will be accomplished by state employees or by
contracts.
(c) The total estimated cost of the projects is
$14,460,500.00.
(d) The tentative completion date is September 30, 2024.
Sec. 227. (1) From the repurposed work project appropriation
of $100,000.00 for a study on the best location for a corrections
officer training academy, funding shall be used to conduct a study,
in cooperation with the department of technology, management, and
budget, to find a suitable location for a training academy. At a
minimum, [4] locations must be selected for the study, and [2 locations]
must be the former Riverside Correctional Facility [and the former
Ojibway Correctional Facility]. The new
training academy must have classrooms, administrative offices, a
gymnasium, a cafeteria, lodging facilities, an outdoor training
area, and a firearm range.
(2) The results of the study, including projected costs for
each location, must be reported to the senate and house of
representatives appropriations subcommittees on corrections, the
senate and house fiscal agencies, the legislative corrections
ombudsman, and the state budget office by April 1.
Sec. 228. From the repurposed work project appropriation of
$750,000.00 for demolition of the former Deerfield Correctional
Facility, the department shall work with the department of
technology, management, and budget on awarding a contract to the
most responsive and responsible best value bidder for demolition of
the facility. The $750,000.00 shall be transferred by the
department of corrections to the department of technology,
management, and budget through the interdepartmental grant and
transfer process and be used for demolition of the facility.
Sec. 239. It is the intent of the legislature that the
department establish and maintain a management-to-staff ratio of
not more than 1 supervisor for each 8 employees at the department's
central office in Lansing and at both the northern and southern
region administration offices.
Sec. 247. In cooperation with the state court administrative
office, the department shall assist with the data compilation for
the swift and sure sanctions program.
Sec. 248. At the May 2020 consensus revenue estimating
conference, the senate and house fiscal agencies and the state
budget director, or state treasurer, shall establish a projected
prisoner population for fiscal year 2020-2021, and a projected
number of available beds based on the population projection.
DEPARTMENTAL ADMINISTRATION AND SUPPORT
Sec. 301. For 3 years after a felony offender is released from
the department's jurisdiction, the department shall maintain the
offender's file on the offender tracking information system and
make it publicly accessible in the same manner as the file of the
current offender. However, the department shall immediately remove
the offender's file from the offender tracking information system
upon determination that the offender was wrongfully convicted and
the offender's file is not otherwise required to be maintained on
the offender tracking information system.
Sec. 302. From the funds appropriated in part 1, the
department shall submit a report by March 1 on the department's
staff retention strategies to the senate and house appropriations
subcommittees on corrections, the senate and house fiscal agencies,
the legislative corrections ombudsman, and the state budget office.
The report must include, but not be limited to, the following:
(a) The department's strategies on how to improve employee
engagement, how to improve employee wellness, and how to offer
additional training and professional development for employees.
(b) Mechanisms by which the department receives employee
feedback in areas under subdivision (a) and how the department
considers suggestions made by employees.
(c) Steps the department has taken, and future plans the
department has for retention and improving employee wellness.
Sec. 303. From the funds appropriated in part 1, the
department shall submit a report by March 1 on the number of
employee departures to the senate and house appropriations
subcommittees on corrections, the senate and house fiscal agencies,
the legislative corrections ombudsman, and the state budget office.
The report must include the number of corrections officers that
departed from employment at a state correctional facility in the
immediately preceding fiscal year and the number of years they
worked for the department.
Sec. 304. The department shall maintain a staff savings
initiative program in conjunction with the EPIC program for
employees to submit suggestions for efficiencies for the
department. The department shall consider each suggestion in a
timely manner. By March 1, the department shall report to the
senate and house appropriations subcommittees on corrections, the
senate and house fiscal agencies, the legislative corrections
ombudsman, and the state budget office on process improvements that
were implemented based on suggestions that were recommended for
implementation from the staff savings initiative and EPIC programs.
Sec. 305. From the funds appropriated in part 1 for
prosecutorial and detainer expenses, the department shall reimburse
counties for housing and custody of parole violators and offenders
being returned by the department from community placement who are
available for return to institutional status and for prisoners who
volunteer for placement in a county jail.
Sec. 306. Funds included in part 1 for the sheriffs'
coordinating and training office are appropriated for and may be
expended to defray costs of continuing education, certification,
recertification, decertification, and training of local corrections
officers, the personnel and administrative costs of the sheriffs'
coordinating and training office, the local corrections officers
advisory board, and the sheriffs' coordinating and training council
under the local corrections officers training act, 2003 PA 125, MCL
791.531 to 791.546.
Sec. 307. The department shall issue a biannual report for all
vendor contracts to the senate and house appropriations
subcommittees on corrections, the senate and house fiscal agencies,
the legislative corrections ombudsman, and the state budget office.
The report shall cover service contracts with a value of
$500,000.00 or more and include all of the following:
(a) The original start date and the current expiration date of
each contract.
(b) The number, if any, of contract compliance monitoring site
visits completed by the department for each vendor.
(c) The number and amount of fines, if any, for service-level
agreement noncompliance for each vendor broken down by area of
noncompliance.
Sec. 308. The department shall provide for the training of all
custody staff in effective and safe ways of handling prisoners with
mental illness and referring prisoners to mental health treatment
programs. Mental health awareness training shall be incorporated
into the training of new custody staff.
Sec. 309. The department shall issue a report for all
correctional facilities to the senate and house appropriations
subcommittees on corrections, the senate and house fiscal agencies,
the legislative corrections ombudsman, and the state budget office
by January 1 setting forth the following information for each
facility: its name, street address, and date of construction; its
current maintenance costs; any maintenance planned; its current
utility costs; its expected future capital improvement costs; the
current unspent balance of any authorized capital outlay projects,
including the original authorized amount; its expected future
useful life; a list of costs associated with maintenance and upkeep
of all closed facilities, by facility; and estimated costs of
demolition of closed facilities.
Sec. 310. (1) By February 1, the department shall provide a
report to the senate and house appropriations subcommittees on
corrections, the senate and house fiscal agencies, the legislative
corrections ombudsman, and the state budget office which details
the strategic plan of the department. The report shall contain
strategies to decrease the overall recidivism rate, measurable
plans to increase the rehabilitative function of correctional
facilities, metrics to track and ensure prisoner readiness to
reenter society, and constructive actions for providing prisoners
with life skills development.
(2) The intent of this report is to express that the mission
of the department is to provide an action plan before reentry to
society that ensures prisoners' readiness for meeting parole
requirements and ensures a reduction in the total number of
released inmates who reenter the criminal justice system.
Sec. 311. By December 1, the department shall provide a report
on the Michigan state industries program to the senate and house
appropriations subcommittees on corrections, the senate and house
fiscal agencies, the legislative corrections ombudsman, and the
state budget office. The report shall include, but not be limited
to, the locations of the programs, the total number of participants
at each location, a description of job duties and typical inmate
schedules, the products that are produced, and how the program
provides marketable skills that lead to employable outcomes after
release from a department facility.
Sec. 312. (1) From the funds appropriated in part 1 for budget
and operations administration, $50,000.00 shall be used for post-
traumatic stress disorder outreach and employee wellness
programming. The department shall work with the Michigan
corrections organization and others, including a multidisciplinary
team of department employees representing every job category and
administration, to determine strategies for treating mental health
issues and implementing mental health programming for all
department staff, with a focus on staff working in correctional
facilities on a daily basis.
(2) The appropriation of $50,000.00 in part 1 shall be used in
addition to the repurposed work project appropriation of
$950,000.00 contained in section 226 of this part.
(3) By September 30, the department shall submit a report
detailing strategies determined, programs established, the level of
employee involvement in the creation of programs, the prevalence of
post-traumatic stress disorder and other psychological issues among
corrections officers that are exacerbated by the corrections
environment and exposure to highly stressful situations, and
details on expenditures. The department shall submit the report to
the senate and house appropriations subcommittees on corrections,
the senate and house fiscal agencies, the legislative corrections
ombudsman, and the state budget office.
Sec. 313. (1) From the funds appropriated in part 1, the
department shall submit quarterly reports on new employee schools
to the senate and house appropriations subcommittees on
corrections, the senate and house fiscal agencies, the legislative
corrections ombudsman, and the state budget office. The reports
must include the following information for the immediately
preceding fiscal quarter, and as much of the information as
possible for the current and next fiscal year.
(a) The number of new employee schools that took place and the
location of each.
(b) The number of recruits that started in each employee
school.
(c) The number of recruits that graduated from each employee
school and continued employment with the department.
(2) The report must outline the department's strategy to
achieve a 5% or lower target corrections officer vacancy rate.
Sec. 314. From the funds appropriated in part 1, the
department shall submit a monthly report on the number of overtime
hours worked by all custody staff, by facility. The report shall
include for each facility, the number of mandatory overtime hours
worked, the number of voluntary overtime hours worked, the reasons
for overtime hours worked, and the average number of overtime hours
worked by active employees.
Sec. 315. It is the intent of the legislature that, once
staffing vacancy rates improve to a sufficient level, the
department will allow corrections officers the option to work 12-
hour shifts.
Sec. 316. (1) From the funds appropriated in part 1 for new
custody staff training, $200,000.00 shall be allocated for handgun
requalification for corrections officers wanting to be requalified.
(2) The appropriation of $200,000.00 in part 1 shall be used
in addition to the repurposed work project appropriation of
$200,000.00 contained in section 226 of this part.
OFFENDER SUCCESS ADMINISTRATION
Sec. 401. The department shall submit 3-year and 5-year prison
population projection updates concurrent with submission of the
executive budget recommendation to the senate and house
appropriations subcommittees on corrections, the senate and house
fiscal agencies, the legislative corrections ombudsman, and the
state budget office. The report shall include explanations of the
methodology and assumptions used in developing the projection
updates.
Sec. 402. By March 1, the department shall provide a report on
offender success expenditures and allocations to the senate and
house appropriations subcommittees on corrections, the senate and
house fiscal agencies, the legislative corrections ombudsman, and
the state budget office. At a minimum, the report shall include
information on both of the following:
(a) Details on prior-year expenditures, including amounts
spent on each project funded, itemized by service provided and
service provider.
(b) Allocations and planned expenditures for each project
funded and for each project to be funded, itemized by service to be
provided and service provider. The department shall provide an
amended report quarterly, if any revisions to allocations or
planned expenditures occurred during that quarter.
Sec. 403. The department shall partner with nonprofit faith-
based, business and professional, civic, and community
organizations for the purpose of providing offender success
services. Offender success services include, but are not limited
to, counseling, providing information on housing and job placement,
and money management assistance.
Sec. 404. From the funds appropriated in part 1 for offender
success services, the department, when reasonably possible, shall
ensure that inmates have potential employer matches in the
communities to which they will return prior to each inmate's
initial parole hearing.
Sec. 405. By March 1, the department shall report to the
senate and house appropriations subcommittees on corrections, the
senate and house fiscal agencies, the legislative corrections
ombudsman, and the state budget office on substance abuse testing
and treatment program objectives, outcome measures, and results,
including program impact on offender success and programmatic
success.
Sec. 406. The department will work with the organization
representing federally qualified health centers (FQHCs) to
implement a pilot project to ensure that behavioral and physical
health needs among parolees and probationers are addressed. The
pilot project will position FQHCs to ensure that parolees and
probationers are enrolled in and maintain access to benefits for
which they qualify, are linked to the health care services they
need, follow up with providers, stay on their medications, are
engaged in services, and have barriers to care addressed. The
department will make necessary accommodations to perform the
transition planning to allow for a direct referral to the FQHC
organization to patients in relevant areas. The pilot project shall
operate in at least Berrien, Kent, and Macomb Counties. The FQHC
organization shall submit annual reports detailing these outcomes
to the senate and house appropriations subcommittees on
corrections, the senate and house fiscal agencies, the legislative
corrections ombudsman, and the state budget office. The report
shall include, but not be limited to, the number of offenders
served by the pilot project in each county, the number of
individual contacts with each offender, the federally reimbursable
expenditures leveraged by the pilot project by county, and the
state expenditures within the pilot project by county.
Sec. 407. By June 30, the department shall place the
statistical report from the immediately preceding calendar year on
an internet site. The statistical report shall include, but not be
limited to, the information as provided in the 2004 statistical
report.
Sec. 408. The department shall measure the recidivism rates of
offenders.
Sec. 409. (1) The department shall engage with the talent
investment agency within the department of talent and economic
development and local entities to design services and shall use
appropriations provided in part 1 for offender success and
vocational education programs. The department shall ensure that the
collaboration provides relevant professional development
opportunities to prisoners to ensure that the programs are high
quality, demand driven, locally receptive, and responsive to the
needs of communities where the prisoners are expected to reside
after their release from correctional facilities. The programs
shall begin upon the intake of the prisoner into a department
facility.
(2) The department shall continue to offer workforce
development programming through the entire duration of the
prisoner's incarceration to encourage employment upon release.
(3) By March 1, the department shall provide a report to the
senate and house appropriations subcommittees on corrections, the
senate and house fiscal agencies, the legislative corrections
ombudsman, and the state budget office detailing the results of the
workforce development program.
Sec. 410. (1) The funds included in part 1 for community
corrections comprehensive plans and services are to encourage the
development through technical assistance grants, implementation,
and operation of community corrections programs that enhance
offender success and that also may serve as an alternative to
incarceration in a state facility or jail. The comprehensive
corrections plans shall include an explanation of how the public
safety will be maintained, the goals for the local jurisdiction,
offender target populations intended to be affected, offender
eligibility criteria for purposes outlined in the plan, and how the
plans will meet the following objectives, consistent with section
8(4) of the community corrections act, 1988 PA 511, MCL 791.408:
(a) Reduce admissions to prison of offenders who would likely
be sentenced to imprisonment, including probation violators.
(b) Improve the appropriate utilization of jail facilities,
the first priority of which is to open jail beds intended to house
otherwise prison-bound felons, and the second priority being to
appropriately utilize jail beds so that jail crowding does not
occur.
(c) Open jail beds through the increase of pretrial release
options.
(d) Reduce the readmission to prison of parole violators.
(e) Reduce the admission or readmission to prison of
offenders, including probation violators and parole violators, for
substance abuse violations.
(f) Contribute to offender success.
(2) The award of community corrections comprehensive plans and
residential services funds shall be based on criteria that include,
but are not limited to, the prison commitment rate by category of
offenders, trends in prison commitment rates and jail utilization,
historical trends in community corrections program capacity and
program utilization, and the projected impact and outcome of annual
policies and procedures of programs on offender success, prison
commitment rates, and jail utilization.
(3) Funds awarded for residential services in part 1 shall
provide for a per diem reimbursement of not more than $52.50.
Sec. 411. The comprehensive corrections plans shall also
include, where appropriate, descriptive information on the full
range of sanctions and services that are available and utilized
within the local jurisdiction and an explanation of how jail beds,
residential services, the special alternative incarceration
program, probation detention centers, the electronic monitoring
program for probationers, and treatment and rehabilitative services
will be utilized to support the objectives and priorities of the
comprehensive corrections plans and the purposes and priorities of
section 8(4) of the community corrections act, 1988 PA 511, MCL
791.408, that contribute to the success of offenders. The plans
shall also include, where appropriate, provisions that detail how
the local communities plan to respond to sentencing guidelines
found in chapter XVII of the code of criminal procedure, 1927 PA
175, MCL 777.1 to 777.69, and use the county jail reimbursement
program under section 414 of this part. The state community
corrections board shall encourage local community corrections
advisory boards to include in their comprehensive corrections plans
strategies to collaborate with local alcohol and drug treatment
agencies of the MDHHS for the provision of alcohol and drug
screening, assessment, case management planning, and delivery of
treatment to alcohol- and drug-involved offenders.
Sec. 412. (1) The department shall submit to the senate and
house appropriations subcommittees on corrections, the senate and
house fiscal agencies, the legislative corrections ombudsman, and
the state budget office the following information for each county
and counties consolidated for comprehensive corrections plans:
(a) Approved technical assistance grants and comprehensive
corrections plans including each program and level of funding, the
utilization level of each program, and profile information of
enrolled offenders.
(b) If federal funds are made available, the number of
participants funded, the number served, the number successfully
completing the program, and a summary of the program activity.
(c) Status of the community corrections information system and
the jail population information system.
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(d) Data on residential services, including participant data,
participant sentencing guideline scores, program expenditures,
average length of stay, and bed utilization data.
(e) Offender disposition data by sentencing guideline range,
by disposition type, by prior record variable score, by number and
percent statewide and by county, current year, and comparisons to
the previous 3 years.
(f) Data on the use of funding made available under the drunk
driver jail reduction and community treatment program.
(2) The report required under subsection (1) shall include the
total funding allocated, program expenditures, required program
data, and year-to-date totals.
[Sec. 413. (1) From the funds appropriated in part 1 for public safety initiative, the county sheriff of the county receiving the funding under part 1 shall report a detailed listing of expenditures made for the prior three fiscal years. The report must be submitted by February 1 to the senate and house of representatives appropriations subcommittees on corrections, the senate and house fiscal agencies, the legislative corrections ombudsman, and the state budget office and must include the purpose for which the expenditures were made, the amounts of expenditures by purpose, specific services that were provided, and number of individuals served.
(2) If requested by the senate and house of representatives appropriations subcommittees on corrections, the county sheriff of the county receiving the funding under part 1 shall appear before the subcommittees to discuss the expenditure report required under subsection (1). The subcommittees will work with the county sheriff to determine when the meeting will occur.]
Sec. 414. (1) The department shall administer a county jail
reimbursement program from the funds appropriated in part 1 for the
purpose of reimbursing counties for housing in jails certain felons
who otherwise would have been sentenced to prison.
(2) The county jail reimbursement program shall reimburse
counties for convicted felons in the custody of the sheriff if the
conviction was for a crime committed on or after January 1, 1999
and 1 of the following applies:
(a) The felon's sentencing guidelines recommended range upper
limit is more than 18 months, the felon's sentencing guidelines
recommended range lower limit is 12 months or less, the felon's
prior record variable score is 35 or more points, and the felon's
sentence is not for commission of a crime in crime class G or crime
class H or a nonperson crime in crime class F under chapter XVII of
the code of criminal procedure, 1927 PA 175, MCL 777.1 to 777.69.
(b) The felon's minimum sentencing guidelines range minimum is
more than 12 months under the sentencing guidelines described in
subdivision (a).
(c) The felon was sentenced to jail for a felony committed
while he or she was on parole and under the jurisdiction of the
parole board and for which the sentencing guidelines recommended
range for the minimum sentence has an upper limit of more than 18
months.
(3) State reimbursement under this section shall be $65.00 per
diem per diverted offender for offenders with a presumptive prison
guideline score, $55.00 per diem per diverted offender for
offenders with a straddle cell guideline for a group 1 crime, and
$40.00 per diem per diverted offender for offenders with a straddle
cell guideline for a group 2 crime. Reimbursements shall be paid
for sentences up to a 1-year total.
(4) As used in this section:
(a) "Group 1 crime" means a crime in 1 or more of the
following offense categories: arson, assault, assaultive other,
burglary, criminal sexual conduct, homicide or resulting in death,
other sex offenses, robbery, and weapon possession as determined by
the department based on specific crimes for which counties received
reimbursement under the county jail reimbursement program in fiscal
year 2007 and fiscal year 2008, and listed in the county jail
reimbursement program document titled "FY 2007 and FY 2008 Group
One Crimes Reimbursed", dated March 31, 2009.
(b) "Group 2 crime" means a crime that is not a group 1 crime,
including larceny, fraud, forgery, embezzlement, motor vehicle,
malicious destruction of property, controlled substance offense,
felony drunk driving, and other nonassaultive offenses.
(c) "In the custody of the sheriff" means that the convicted
felon has been sentenced to the county jail and is either housed in
a county jail, is in custody but is being housed at a hospital or
medical facility for a medical or mental health purpose, or has
been released from jail and is being monitored through the use of
the sheriff's electronic monitoring system.
(5) County jail reimbursement program expenditures shall not
exceed the amount appropriated in part 1 for the county jail
reimbursement program. Payments to counties under the county jail
reimbursement program shall be made in the order in which properly
documented requests for reimbursements are received. A request
shall be considered to be properly documented if it meets MDOC
requirements for documentation. By October 15, the department shall
distribute the documentation requirements to all counties.
(6) Any county that receives funding under this section for
the purpose of housing in jails certain felons who otherwise would
have been sentenced to prison shall, as a condition of receiving
the funding, report by September 30 an annual average jail capacity
and annual average jail occupancy for the immediately preceding
fiscal year.
(7) Not later than February 1, the department shall report to
the senate and house appropriations subcommittees on corrections
all of the following information:
(a) The number of inmates sentenced to the custody of the
sheriff and eligible for the county jail reimbursement program.
(b) The total amount paid to counties under the county jail
reimbursement program.
(c) The total number of days inmates were in the custody of
the sheriff and eligible for the county jail reimbursement program.
(d) The number of inmates sentenced to the custody of the
sheriff under each of the 3 categories: presumptive prison, group 1
crime, and group 2 crime in subsection (3).
(e) The total amount paid to counties under each of the 3
categories: presumptive prison, group 1 crime, and group 2 crime in
subsection (3).
(f) The total number of days inmates were in the custody of
the sheriff under each of the 3 categories: presumptive prison,
group 1 crime, and group 2 crime in subsection (3).
(g) The estimated cost of housing inmates sentenced to the
custody of the sheriff and eligible for the county jail
reimbursement program as inmates of a state prison.
Sec. 416. Allowable uses of drunk driver jail reduction and
community treatment program funding shall include reimbursing
counties for transportation, treatment costs, and housing drunk
drivers during a period of assessment for treatment and case
planning. Reimbursements for housing during the assessment process
shall be at the rate of $43.50 per day per offender, up to a
maximum of 5 days per offender.
Sec. 417. (1) By March 1, the department shall report to the
senate and house appropriations subcommittees on corrections, the
senate and house fiscal agencies, the legislative corrections
ombudsman, and the state budget office on both of the following
programs from the previous fiscal year:
(a) The drunk driver jail reduction and community treatment
program.
(b) Any new initiatives to control prison population growth
funded or proposed to be funded under part 1.
(2) For each program listed under subsection (1), the report
shall include information on each of the following:
(a) Program objectives and outcome measures, including, but
not limited to, the number of offenders who successfully completed
the program, and the number of offenders who successfully remained
in the community during the 3 years following termination from the
program.
(b) Expenditures by location.
(c) The impact on jail utilization.
(d) The impact on prison admissions.
(e) Other information relevant to an evaluation of the
program.
Sec. 418. (1) The department shall collaborate with the state
court administrative office on facilitating changes to Michigan
court rules that would require the court to collect at the time of
sentencing the state operator's license, state identification card,
or other documentation used to establish the identity of the
individual to be admitted to the department. The department shall
maintain those documents in the prisoner's personal file.
(2) The department shall cooperate with MDHHS to create and
maintain a process by which prisoners can obtain their Michigan
birth certificates if necessary. The department shall describe a
process for obtaining birth certificates from other states, and in
situations where the prisoner's effort fails, the department shall
assist in obtaining the birth certificate.
(3) The department shall collaborate with the department of
military and veterans affairs to create and maintain a process by
which prisoners can obtain a copy of their DD Form 214 or other
military discharge documentation if necessary.
Sec. 419. (1) The department shall provide weekly electronic
mail reports to the senate and house appropriations subcommittees
on corrections, the senate and house fiscal agencies, the
legislative corrections ombudsman, and the state budget office on
prisoner populations by security levels by facility, prison
facility capacities, and parolee and probationer populations.
(2) The department shall provide monthly electronic mail
reports to the senate and house appropriations subcommittees on
corrections, the senate and house fiscal agencies, the legislative
corrections ombudsman, and the state budget office. The reports
shall include information on end-of-month prisoner populations in
county jails, the net operating capacity according to the most
recent certification report, identified by date, the number of beds
in currently closed housing units by facility, and end-of-month
data, year-to-date data, and comparisons to the prior year for the
following:
(a) Community residential program populations, separated by
centers and electronic monitoring.
(b) Parole populations.
(c) Probation populations, with identification of the number
in special alternative incarceration.
(d) Prison and camp populations, with separate identification
of the number in special alternative incarceration and the number
of lifers.
(e) Prisoners classified as past their earliest release date.
(f) Parole board activity, including the numbers and
percentages of parole grants and parole denials.
(g) Prisoner exits, identifying transfers to community
placement, paroles from prisons and camps, paroles from community
placement, total movements to parole, prison intake, prisoner
deaths, prisoners discharging on the maximum sentence, and other
prisoner exits.
(h) Prison intake and returns, including probation violators,
new court commitments, violators with new sentences, escaper new
sentences, total prison intake, returns from court with additional
sentences, community placement returns, technical parole violator
returns, and total returns to prison and camp.
Sec. 422. On a quarterly basis, the department shall issue a
report to the senate and house appropriations subcommittees on
corrections, the senate and house fiscal agencies, the legislative
corrections ombudsman, and the state budget office, for the
previous 4 quarters detailing the outcomes of prisoners who have
been reviewed for parole. The report shall include all of the
following:
(a) How many prisoners in each quarter were reviewed.
(b) How many prisoners were granted parole.
(c) How many prisoners were denied parole.
(d) How many parole decisions were deferred.
(e) The distribution of the total number of prisoners reviewed
during that quarter grouped by whether the prisoner had been
interviewed for the first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, or
more than sixth time.
(f) The number of paroles granted, denied, or deferred for
each of the parole guideline scores of low, average, and high.
(g) The reason for denying or deferring parole.
Sec. 423. From the funds appropriated in part 1 for offender
success administration, the department shall collaborate with the
Michigan Restaurant Association for job placement for individuals
on probation and parole.
Sec. 425. (1) From the funds appropriated in part 1 for
offender success programming, $1,000,000.00 shall be used by the
department to establish medication-assisted treatment offender
success pilot programs to provide prerelease treatment and
postrelease referral for opioid-addicted and alcohol-addicted
offenders who voluntarily participate in the medication-assisted
treatment offender success pilot programs. The department shall
collaborate with residential and nonresidential substance abuse
treatment providers and with community-based clinics to provide
postrelease treatment. The programs shall employ a multifaceted
approach to treatment, including a long-acting nonaddictive
medication approved by the Food and Drug Administration for the
treatment of opioid and alcohol dependence, counseling, and
postrelease referral to community-based providers.
(2) The manufacturer of a long-acting nonaddictive medication
approved by the Food and Drug Administration for opioid and alcohol
dependence shall provide the department with samples of the
medication, at no cost to the department, during the duration of
the medication-assisted treatment offender success pilot programs.
Offenders shall receive 1 injection prior to being released from
custody and shall be connected with an aftercare plan and
assistance with obtaining insurance to cover subsequent injections.
(3) Participants of the programs shall be required to attend
substance abuse treatment programming as directed by their agent,
including coordination of both direct or indirect services through
federally qualified health centers in Wayne, Washtenaw, Genesee,
Berrien, Van Buren, and Allegan Counties, but not limited to only
those counties, shall be subject to routine drug and alcohol
testing, shall not be allowed to consume drugs or alcohol, and
shall possess a strong will to overcome addiction.
(4) The department shall submit a report by September 30 to
the senate and house appropriations subcommittees on corrections,
the senate and house fiscal agencies, the legislative corrections
ombudsman, and the state budget office on the number of offenders
who received injections upon release, the number of offenders who
received injections and tested positive for drugs or alcohol, the
number of offenders who received injections in the community for a
duration of at least 3 months, and the number of offenders who
received injections and were subsequently returned to prison.
Sec. 426. From the funds appropriated in part 1, the
department shall ensure that any inmate with a diagnosed mental
illness is referred to a local mental health care provider that is
able and willing to treat the inmate upon parole or discharge. The
department shall ensure that the provider is informed of the
inmate's current treatment plan including any medications that are
currently prescribed to the inmate.
FIELD OPERATIONS ADMINISTRATION
Sec. 603. (1) All prisoners, probationers, and parolees
involved with the curfew monitoring program shall reimburse the
department for costs associated with their participation in the
program. The department may require community service work
reimbursement as a means of payment for those able-bodied
individuals unable to pay for the costs of the equipment.
(2) Program participant contributions and local program
reimbursement for the curfew monitoring program appropriated in
part 1 are related to program expenditures and may be used to
offset expenditures for this purpose.
(3) Included in the appropriation in part 1 is adequate
funding to implement the curfew monitoring program to be
administered by the department. The curfew monitoring program is
intended to provide sentencing judges and county sheriffs in
coordination with local community corrections advisory boards
access to the state's curfew monitoring program to reduce prison
admissions and improve local jail utilization. The department shall
determine the appropriate distribution of the curfew monitor units
throughout the state based upon locally developed comprehensive
corrections plans under the community corrections act, 1988 PA 511,
MCL 791.401 to 791.414.
(4) For a fee determined by the department, the department
shall provide counties with the curfew monitor equipment,
replacement parts, administrative oversight of the equipment's
operation, notification of violators, and periodic reports
regarding county program participants. Counties are responsible for
curfew monitor equipment installation and service. For an
additional fee as determined by the department, the department
shall provide staff to install and service the equipment. Counties
are responsible for the coordination and apprehension of program
violators.
(5) Any county with curfew monitor charges outstanding over 60
days shall be considered in violation of the community curfew
monitor program agreement and lose access to the program.
Sec. 604. (1) The funds appropriated in part 1 for criminal
justice reinvestment shall be used only to fund data collection and
evidence-based programs designed to reduce recidivism among
probationers and parolees.
(2) Of the funds appropriated in part 1 for criminal justice
reinvestment, at least $600,000.00 shall be allocated to an
organization that has received a United States Department of Labor
training to work 2-adult reentry grant to provide county jail
inmates with programming and services to prepare them to get and
keep jobs. Examples of eligible programs and services are, but are
not limited to: adult education, tutoring, manufacturing skills
training, participation in a simulated work environment, mentoring,
cognitive therapy groups, life skills classes, substance abuse
recovery groups, fatherhood programs, classes in understanding the
legal system, family literacy, health and wellness, finance
management, employer presentations, and classes on job retention.
Programming and support services should begin before release and
continue after release from the county jail. To be eligible for
funding, an organization must show at least 2 years' worth of data
that demonstrate program success.
Sec. 611. The department shall prepare by March 1 individual
reports for the residential reentry program, the electronic
monitoring program, and the special alternative to incarceration
program. The reports shall be submitted to the senate and house
appropriations subcommittees on corrections, the senate and house
fiscal agencies, the legislative corrections ombudsman, and the
state budget office. Each program's report shall include
information on all of the following:
(a) Monthly new participants by type of offender. Residential
reentry program participants shall be categorized by reason for
placement. For technical rule violators, the report shall sort
offenders by length of time since release from prison, by the most
recent violation, and by the number of violations occurring since
release from prison.
(b) Monthly participant unsuccessful terminations, including
cause.
(c) Number of successful terminations.
(d) End month population by facility/program.
(e) Average length of placement.
(f) Return to prison statistics.
(g) Description of each program location or locations,
capacity, and staffing.
(h) Sentencing guideline scores and actual sentence statistics
for participants, if applicable.
(i) Comparison with prior year statistics.
(j) Analysis of the impact on prison admissions and jail
utilization and the cost effectiveness of the program.
Sec. 612. (1) The department shall review and revise as
necessary policy proposals that provide alternatives to prison for
offenders being sentenced to prison as a result of technical
probation violations and technical parole violations. To the extent
the department has insufficient policies or resources to affect the
continued increase in prison commitments among these offender
populations, the department shall explore other policy options to
allow for program alternatives, including department or OCC-funded
programs, local level programs, and programs available through
private agencies that may be used as prison alternatives for these
offenders.
(2) By April 1, the department shall provide a report to the
senate and house appropriations subcommittees on corrections, the
senate and house fiscal agencies, the legislative corrections
ombudsman, and the state budget office on the number of all
parolees returned to prison and probationers sentenced to prison
for either a technical violation or new sentence during the
preceding fiscal year. The report shall include the following
information for probationers, for parolees after their first
parole, and for parolees who have been paroled more than once:
(a) The numbers of parole and probation violators returned to
or sent to prison for a new crime with a comparison of original
versus new offenses by major offense type: assaultive,
nonassaultive, drug, and sex.
(b) The numbers of parole and probation violators returned to
or sent to prison for a technical violation and the type of
violation, including, but not limited to, zero gun tolerance and
substance abuse violations. For parole technical rule violators,
the report shall list violations by type, by length of time since
release from prison, by the most recent violation, and by the
number of violations occurring since release from prison.
(c) The educational history of those offenders, including how
many had a high school equivalency or high school diploma prior to
incarceration in prison, how many received a high school
equivalency while in prison, and how many received a vocational
certificate while in prison.
(d) The number of offenders who participated in the reentry
program versus the number of those who did not.
(e) The unduplicated number of offenders who participated in
substance abuse treatment programs, mental health treatment
programs, or both, while in prison, itemized by diagnosis.
Sec. 613. When the department is determining where to place a
parolee with chronic technical violations, the department shall
give priority to placing a parolee in an intensive detention
program that offers specific programming to address the behavioral
needs of the parolee, and that works on a plan with the parolee to
ensure that once the parolee is released he or she can remain in
the community and successfully complete his or her parole.
Sec. 615. (1) The department shall submit a report detailing
the number of prisoners who have received life imprisonment
sentences with the possibility of parole and who are currently
eligible for parole to the senate and house appropriations
subcommittees on corrections, the senate and house fiscal agencies,
the legislative corrections ombudsman, and the state budget office
by April 30.
(2) The report shall include the following information on
parolable lifers who have served more than 25 years: prisoner name,
MDOC identification number, prefix, offense for which life term is
being served, county of conviction, age at time offense was
committed, current age, race, gender, true security classification,
dates of parole board file reviews, dates of parole board
interviews, parole guideline scores, and reason for decision not to
release.
Sec. 617. From the funds appropriated in part 1 for the
residential alternative to prison program, the department shall
provide vocational, educational, and cognitive programming in a
secure environment to enhance existing alternative sentencing
options, increase employment readiness and successful placement
rates, and reduce new criminal behavior for the west Michigan
probation violator population. The department shall measure and set
the following metric goals:
(a) 85% of participants successfully complete the program.
(b) Of the participants that complete the program, 75% will
earn a nationally recognized credential for career and vocational
programs.
(c) Of the participants that complete the program, 100% will
earn a certificate of completion for cognitive programming.
(d) The prison commitment rate for probation violators will be
reduced by 5% within the impacted geographical area after the first
year of program operation.
HEALTH CARE
Sec. 802. As a condition of expenditure of the funds
appropriated in part 1, the department shall provide the senate and
house appropriations subcommittees on corrections, the senate and
house fiscal agencies, the legislative corrections ombudsman, and
the state budget office with quarterly reports on physical and
mental health care detailing quarterly and fiscal year-to-date
expenditures itemized by vendor, allocations, status of payments
from contractors to vendors, and projected year-end expenditures
from accounts for prisoner health care, mental health care,
pharmaceutical services, and durable medical equipment. These
reports shall include a breakdown of all payments to the integrated
care provider itemized by physical health care, mental health care,
and pharmacy expenditures.
Sec. 803. (1) The department shall assure that all prisoners,
upon any health care treatment, are given the opportunity to sign a
release of information form designating a family member or other
individual to whom the department shall release records information
regarding a prisoner. A release of information form signed by a
prisoner shall remain in effect for 1 year, and the prisoner may
elect to withdraw or amend the release form at any time.
(2) The department shall assure that any such signed release
forms follow a prisoner upon transfer to another department
facility or to the supervision of a parole officer.
(3) The form shall be placed online, on a public website
managed by the department.
Sec. 804. The department shall report quarterly to the senate
and house appropriations subcommittees on corrections, the senate
and house fiscal agencies, the legislative corrections ombudsman,
and the state budget office on prisoner health care utilization.
The report shall include the number of inpatient hospital days,
outpatient visits, emergency room visits, and prisoners receiving
off-site inpatient medical care in the previous quarter, by
facility.
Sec. 807. The funds appropriated in part 1 for Hepatitis C
treatment shall be used only to purchase specialty medication for
Hepatitis C treatment in the prison population. In addition to the
above appropriation, any rebates received from the medications used
shall be used only to purchase specialty medication for Hepatitis C
treatment. On a quarterly basis, the department shall issue a
report to the senate and house appropriations subcommittees on
corrections, the senate and house fiscal agencies, the legislative
corrections ombudsman, and the state budget office, showing for the
previous 4 quarters the total amount spent on specialty medication
for the treatment of Hepatitis C, the number of prisoners that were
treated, the amount of any rebates that were received from the
purchase of specialty medication, and what outstanding rebates are
expected to be received.
Sec. 812. (1) The department shall provide the department of
health and human services with a monthly list of prisoners newly
committed to the department of corrections. The department and the
department of health and human services shall enter into an
interagency agreement under which the department of health and
human services provides the department of corrections with monthly
lists of newly committed prisoners who are eligible for Medicaid
benefits in order to maintain the process by which Medicaid
benefits are suspended rather than terminated. The department shall
assist prisoners who may be eligible for Medicaid benefits after
release from prison with the Medicaid enrollment process prior to
release from prison.
(2) The department shall provide the senate and house
appropriations subcommittees on corrections, the senate and house
fiscal agencies, the legislative corrections ombudsman, and the
state budget office with quarterly updates on the utilization of
Medicaid benefits for prisoners.
Sec. 816. By April 1, the department shall provide the senate
and house appropriations subcommittees on corrections, the senate
and house fiscal agencies, the legislative corrections ombudsman,
and the state budget office with a report on pharmaceutical
expenditures and prescribing practices. In particular, the report
shall provide the following information:
(a) A detailed accounting of expenditures on antipsychotic
medications.
(b) Any changes that have been made to the prescription drug
formularies.
CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES ADMINISTRATION
Sec. 901. From the funds appropriated in part 1 for the
enhanced food technology program, the department shall expand the
existing food technology education program to at least 700 inmates
annually. A participant in the food technology program shall
complete 408 hours of on-the-job training in a prison kitchen as a
part of the program.
Sec. 903a. From the funds appropriated in part 1 for prison
food service, the department shall report biannually to the senate
and house appropriations subcommittees on corrections, the senate
and house fiscal agencies, the legislative corrections ombudsman,
and the state budget office on the following:
(a) Average per-meal cost for prisoner food service. Per-meal
cost shall include all costs directly related to the provision of
food for the prisoner population, and shall include, but not be
limited to, actual food costs, total compensation for all food
service workers, including benefits and legacy costs, and
inspection and compliance costs for food service.
(b) Food service-related contracts, including goods or
services to be provided and the vendor.
(c) Major sanitation violations.
Sec. 904. The department shall calculate the cost per
prisoner/per day for each security custody level. This calculation
shall include all actual direct and indirect costs for the previous
fiscal year, including, but not limited to, the value of services
provided to the department by other state agencies and the
allocation of statewide legacy costs. To calculate the cost per
prisoner/per day, the department shall divide these direct and
indirect costs by the average daily population for each custody
level. For multilevel facilities, the indirect costs that cannot be
accurately allocated to each custody level can be included in the
calculation on a per-prisoner basis for each facility. A report
summarizing these calculations and the direct and indirect costs
included in them shall be submitted to the senate and house
appropriations subcommittees on corrections, the senate and house
fiscal agencies, the legislative corrections ombudsman, and the
state budget office not later than December 15.
Sec. 906. Any local unit of government or private nonprofit
organization that contracts with the department for public works
services shall be responsible for financing the entire cost of such
an agreement.
Sec. 907. The department shall report by March 1 to the senate
and house appropriations subcommittees on corrections, the senate
and house fiscal agencies, the legislative corrections ombudsman,
and the state budget office on academic and vocational programs.
The report shall provide information relevant to an assessment of
the department's academic and vocational programs, including, but
not limited to, all of the following:
(a) The number of instructors and the number of instructor
vacancies, by program and facility.
(b) The number of prisoners enrolled in each program, the
number of prisoners completing each program, the number of
prisoners who do not complete each program and are not subsequently
reenrolled, and the reason for not completing the program, the
number of prisoners transferred to another facility while enrolled
in a program and not subsequently reenrolled, the number of
prisoners enrolled who are repeating the program, and the number of
prisoners on waiting lists for each program, all itemized by
facility.
(c) The steps the department has undertaken to improve
programs, track records, accommodate transfers and prisoners with
health care needs, and reduce waiting lists.
(d) The number of prisoners paroled without a high school
diploma and the number of prisoners paroled without a high school
equivalency.
(e) An explanation of the value and purpose of each program,
for example, to improve employability, reduce recidivism, reduce
prisoner idleness, or some combination of these and other factors.
(f) An identification of program outcomes for each academic
and vocational program.
(g) The number of prisoners not paroled at their earliest
release date due to lack of a high school equivalency, and the
reason those prisoners have not obtained a high school equivalency.
Sec. 910. The department shall allow the Michigan Braille
transcribing fund program to operate at its current location. The
donation of the building by the Michigan Braille transcribing fund
at the G. Robert Cotton Correctional Facility in Jackson is
acknowledged and appreciated. The department shall continue to
encourage the Michigan Braille transcribing fund program to produce
high-quality materials for use by the visually impaired.
Sec. 911. By March 1, the department shall report to the
senate and house appropriations subcommittees on corrections, the
senate and house fiscal agencies, the legislative corrections
ombudsman, and the state budget office the number of critical
incidents occurring each month by type and the number and severity
of assaults, escape attempts, suicides, and attempted suicides
occurring each month at each facility during the immediately
preceding calendar year.
Sec. 912. The department shall report monthly to the senate
and house appropriations subcommittees on corrections, the senate
and house fiscal agencies, the legislative corrections ombudsman,
and the state budget office on the ratio of correctional officers
to prisoners for each correctional institution, the ratio of shift
command staff to line custody staff, and the ratio of noncustody
institutional staff to prisoners for each correctional institution.
Sec. 913. (1) From the funds appropriated in part 1, the
department shall focus on providing required programming to
prisoners who are past their earliest release date because of not
having received the required programming. Programming includes, but
is not limited to, violence prevention programming, assaultive
offender programming, sexual offender programming, substance abuse
treatment programming, thinking for a change programming, and any
other programming that is required as a condition of parole.
(2) It is the intent of the legislature that any prisoner
required to complete a violence prevention program, sexual offender
program, or other program as a condition of parole shall be placed
on a waiting list for the appropriate programming upon entrance to
prison and transferred to a facility where that program is
available in order to accomplish timely completion of that program
prior to the expiration of his or her minimum sentence and
eligibility for parole. Nothing in this section should be deemed to
make parole denial appealable in court.
(3) The department shall submit a quarterly report to the
senate and house appropriations subcommittees on corrections, the
senate and house fiscal agencies, the legislative corrections
ombudsman, and the state budget office detailing enrollment in sex
offender programming, assaultive offender programming, violent
offender programming, and thinking for a change programming. At a
minimum, the report shall include the following:
(a) A full accounting, from the date of entrance to prison, of
the number of individuals who are required to complete the
programming, but have not yet done so.
(b) The number of individuals who have reached their earliest
release date, but who have not completed required programming.
(c) A plan of action for addressing any waiting lists or
backlogs for programming that may exist.
Sec. 920. If a female prisoner consents to a visitor being
present, the department shall allow that 1 person to be present
during the prisoner's labor and delivery. The person allowed to
accompany the prisoner must be an immediate family member, legal
guardian, spouse, or domestic partner. The department is authorized
to deny access to a visitor if the department has a safety concern
with that visitor's access. The department is authorized to conduct
a criminal background check on a visitor.
Sec. 924. The department shall evaluate all prisoners at
intake for substance abuse disorders, serious developmental
disorders, serious mental illness, and other mental health
disorders. Prisoners with serious mental illness or serious
developmental disorders shall not be removed from the general
population as a punitive response to behavior caused by their
serious mental illness or serious developmental disorder. Due to
persistent high violence risk or severe disruptive behavior that is
unresponsive to treatment, prisoners with serious mental illness or
serious developmental disorders may be placed in secure residential
housing programs that will facilitate access to institutional
programming and ongoing mental health services. A prisoner with
serious mental illness or serious developmental disorder who is
confined in these specialized housing programs shall be evaluated
or monitored by a medical professional at a frequency of not less
than every 12 hours.
Sec. 925. By March 1, the department shall report to the
senate and house appropriations subcommittees on corrections, the
senate and house fiscal agencies, the legislative corrections
ombudsman, and the state budget office on the annual number of
prisoners in administrative segregation between October 1, 2018 and
September 30, 2019, and the annual number of prisoners in
administrative segregation between October 1, 2018 and September
30, 2019 who at any time during the current or prior prison term
were diagnosed with serious mental illness or have a developmental
disorder and the number of days each of the prisoners with serious
mental illness or a developmental disorder have been confined to
administrative segregation.
Sec. 929. From the funds appropriated in part 1, the
department shall do all of the following:
(a) Ensure that any inmate care and control staff in contact
with prisoners less than 18 years of age are adequately trained
with regard to the developmental and mental health needs of
prisoners less than 18 years of age. By April 1, the department
shall report to the senate and house appropriations subcommittees
on corrections, the senate and house fiscal agencies, the
legislative corrections ombudsman, and the state budget office on
the training curriculum used and the number and types of staff
receiving annual training under that curriculum.
(b) Provide appropriate placement for prisoners less than 18
years of age who have serious mental illness, serious emotional
disturbance, or a serious developmental disorder and need to be
housed separately from the general population. Prisoners less than
18 years of age who have serious mental illness, serious emotional
disturbance, or a serious developmental disorder shall not be
removed from an existing placement as a punitive response to
behavior caused by their serious mental illness, serious emotional
disturbance, or a serious developmental disorder. Due to persistent
high violence risk or severe disruptive behavior that is
unresponsive to treatment, prisoners less than 18 years of age with
serious emotional disturbance, serious mental illness, or serious
developmental disorders may be placed in secure residential housing
programs that will facilitate access to institutional programming
and ongoing mental health services. A prisoner less than 18 years
of age with serious mental illness, serious emotional disturbance,
or a serious developmental disorder who is confined in these
specialized housing programs shall be evaluated or monitored by a
medical professional at a frequency of not less than every 12
hours.
(c) Implement a specialized offender success program that
recognizes the needs of prisoners less than 18 years old for
supervised offender success.
Sec. 930. The department shall submit a quarterly report to
the senate and house appropriations subcommittees on corrections,
the senate and house fiscal agencies, the legislative corrections
ombudsman, and the state budget office on the number of youth in
prison. The report shall include, but not be limited to, the
following information:
(a) The total number of inmates under age 18 who are not on
Holmes youthful trainee act status.
(b) The total number of inmates under age 18 who are on Holmes
youthful trainee act status.
(c) The total number of inmates aged 18 to 23 who are on
Holmes youthful trainee act status.
Sec. 940. (1) Any lease, rental, contract, or other legal
agreement that includes a provision allowing a private person or
entity to use state-owned facilities or other property to conduct a
for-profit business enterprise shall require the lessee to pay fair
market value for the use of the state-owned property.
(2) The lease, rental, contract, or other legal agreement
shall also require the party using the property to make a payment
in lieu of taxes to the local jurisdictions that would otherwise
receive property tax revenue, as if the property were not owned by
the state.
Sec. 942. The department shall ensure that any contract with a
public or private party to operate a facility to house state
prisoners includes a provision to allow access by both the office
of the legislative auditor general and the office of the
legislative corrections ombudsman to the facility and to
appropriate records and documents related to the operation of the
facility. These access rights for both offices shall be the same
for the contracted facility as for a general state-operated
correctional facility.
Sec. 943. The department shall submit a report by May 1 to the
senate and house appropriations subcommittees on corrections, the
senate and house fiscal agencies, the legislative corrections
ombudsman, and the state budget office on the actual and projected
savings achieved by closing correctional facilities. Savings
amounts shall be itemized by facility. Information required by this
section shall start with the closure of the Pugsley Correctional
Facility, which closed in September of 2016.
Sec. 944. When the department is planning to close a
correctional facility, the department shall fully consider the
potential economic impact of the prison closure on the community
where the facility is located. The department, when weighing all
factors related to the closure of a facility, shall also consider
the impact on the local community where the facility to be closed
is located.
MISCELLANEOUS
Sec. 1009. The department shall make an information packet for
the families of incoming prisoners available on the department's
website. The information packet shall be updated by February 1. The
packet shall provide information on topics including, but not
limited to: how to put money into prisoner accounts, how to make
phone calls or create Jpay electronic mail accounts, how to visit
in person, proper procedures for filing complaints or grievances,
the rights of prisoners to physical and mental health care, how to
utilize the offender tracking information system (OTIS), truth-in-
sentencing and how it applies to minimum sentences, the parole
process, and guidance on the importance of the role of families in
the reentry process. The department is encouraged to partner with
external advocacy groups and actual families of prisoners in the
packet-writing process to ensure that the information is useful and
complete.
Sec. 1011. The department may accept in-kind services and
equipment donations to facilitate the addition of a cable network
that provides programming that will address the religious needs of
incarcerated individuals. This network may be a cable television
network that presently reaches the majority of households in the
United States. A bilingual channel affiliated with this network may
also be added to department programming to assist the religious
needs of Spanish-speaking inmates. The addition of these channels
shall be at no additional cost to this state.
Sec. 1013. From the funds appropriated in part 1, priority may
be given to funding reentry or rehabilitation programs that have
been demonstrated to reduce prison violence and recidivism,
including faith-based initiatives.