1. Prison Population Management John Baldwin Director Iowa Department of Corrections

2. 2 What factors have the greatest impact on the size of the prison population? The Economy? Crime Rates? Unemployment?

3. 3 Sentencing Policies Corrections Practices

4. 4 Iowa: How we cleaned up our mess…

5. 5 …and brought our prison population under control

6. Rated every state-funded intervention in CBCs and prisons on EBP principles Some programs eliminated; others improved 47% of CBC interventions are now Promising or Excellent (up from 26%) TPC Model: Use effective interventions only 6

7. Prison Substance Abuse Tx: Are we meeting needs?

8. Extent of Recidivism Reduction Recidivism Increase

10. Additional community support lowers rate of new conviction.  CBC Supervision  Substance abuse treatment/aftercare in CBC But only 14.2% released to CBC receive additional substance abuse interventions. Prison Substance Abuse Tx: Community aftercare is key.

11. CBC Substance Abuse Tx: Are our programs effective? 11

12. CBC Substance Abuse Tx: Effective for which offenders? 12

13. TPC Model: Risk reduction is main focus 13

14. Risk Reduction For African-American Offenders 14

15. Iowa’s First Reentry Program Results 15

16. 16 A 10% drop in LSI-R score leads to a 6% reduction in recidivism for our highest risk probationers (U of Cincinnati 2008). This research tell us our efforts to reduce offender risk through targeted interventions is working. The results are fewer crimes, fewer victims. CBC Effectiveness Proven Results

17. 17 CBC Effectiveness Proven Results

18. 18 Commitment to Iowa CBC Ranks 41st in offenders on community supervision per 100,000 adult residents. Ranks 27th in the ratio of probationers to prisoners (BJS 2007), indicating judges’ trust in the quality of supervision and services provided by Iowa’s eight district departments of correctional services.

19. 19 Unfortunately… We stepped in it.

20. 20 Future: New record high?

21. Questions? 21