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COMPAS (Correctional Offender Management and Profiling Alternative Sancations)  is a risk and needs assessment system that is a computerized database and analysis system for criminal justice practitioners who make decisions regarding the placement, supervision and case management  of offenders in community settings.  COMPAS will assess four (4) different risk factors:  violence, recidivism, flight/failure to appear and community non-compliance (technical violations).  COMPAS also has a mental health screening instrument that will be utilized to determine if a more in-depth mental health screening needs to take place.  The case management system will bring a computerized process of case managing offenders through the program and treatment phases.  Marion County Community Corrections, the Arrestee Processing Center and Probation will be working together through the common use of COMPAS to make defendable decisions on which offenders should be released early or to community corrections pre-trial programming. 

SCRAM (Secure Continuous Remote Alcohol Monitoring) is MCCC's latest program designed to monitor alcohol conumption of repeat drunk drivers.  SCRAM utilizes the latest in monitoring technologies to measure the amount of alcohol in a person's body through their perspiration.  Offenders placed on this program will wear an ankle bracelet that will measure and record any alcohol consumption.  Once the bracelet detects a drinking event, it will continue to record the event and store the information until the offender comes home and the ankle bracelet communicates with the modem at the offender's home.  Those offenders placed on SCRAM will be free to move about the county as long as they remain alcohol and drug free.

Work Release Center.  During recent years, overcrowding in the jail system has caused the County to turn to the Community Corrections program for assistance in providing additional home detention and work release beds.  Marion County Community Corrections has historically contracted for these types of services with local vendors, including Riverside Community Corrections and Volunteers of America.   While the relationship with the remaining original vendors justifies continuing with the contracting program for some offenders, it has become apparent that using outside vendors exclusively does not provide the County with the control and cost savings that are possible with a county operated facility.  Marion County Community Corrections will operate a new work release center facility, with a projected opening date of late 2006, with the capacity to accommodate three hundred and fifty (350) male offenders.  All offenders will be screened by Community Corrections and no sex offenders will be housed at the location.  Educational and substance abuse treatment programs will be provided.  All able-bodied offenders will be required to work and pay part of their cost for housing and supervision at the work release center.  Offenders not working or who have committed minor facility violations will be required to perform community work service projects throughout the County but specifically for the neighboring communities.

Indianapolis Urban League/First Baptist Program.  Marion County Community Corrections will contract with the Indianapolis Urban League (IUL)  and First Baptist Church of North Indianapolis (FBCNI) to provide services for African American males on home detention.  This program would provide health, mental health and employment services to thirty-six (36) males.

Transformation of the Home Detention Program.  Marion County Community Corrections has implemented a new home detention program that utilizes current staff as Community Supervision Managers (CSM).  CSM's will focus on the needs of the offender and become true case managers working toward their clients' and community's best interest and provide a structured treatment plan that addresses the needs of their clients.  This plan will be based on an assessment of the offenders provided by our assessment tool, COMPAS.  Within the home detention program, four (4) staff members will remain Special Deputies and perform a variety of duties that would require officer status.  Their duties would consist of handling violators and processing them back into custody, equipment retrieval out in the field from those that have absconded from the program and provide special targeted home visits for those problem offenders or those that need extra attention. 

Marion County Reentry Court and Marion County Community Corrections.  In an effort to provide a continuation of services, programs and supervision for offenders entering the Reentry Court, Marion County Community Corrections has partnered with the Indiana Department of Corrections (DOC), The Indiana Parole Board/Marion County Parole Office, and the Marion County Probation Office to participate in a program of collaborative case management with the Marion County Superior Court's Reentry Court.  The Marion County Reentry Court will provide case management services along with court supervision to those offenders who participate in the Reentry Court and are involved in the Community Corrections Community Transition Program and/or Parole/Probation.  The primary goal of all parties involved is to reduce recidivism.  The Marion County Reentry Court program is considered a nationally recognized model for offenders reentering our communities. 

Forensic Diversion Plan for Marion County.  Many dedicated criminal justice and mental health professionals met during 2005 to discuss and begin developing a Forensic Diversion Plan for Marion County.  This plan will address those that are considered chronically addicted and those that suffer from mental illness.  The plan will be introduced next fiscal year and will begin to have an impact on how individuals with mental illness are treated in our criminal justice system.