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  1. Some Useful Instructions • Press Esc at any time to terminate the slide show. • Click on the at the bottom right of the screen to return to this instruction slide. • Click on the to go to the next slide. • Click on the to go to the previous slide. • Click on the to return to the first slide in the show. • Click on the to go to the last slide in the show.

  2. Intensive Supervision Program New Jersey Administrative Office of the Courts

  3. In the Beginning… Funded by the Legislature at the request of the Office of the Governor, ISP was created in 1983. For more than twenty years ISP has been a component of the Probation Services Division of the New Jersey Administrative Office of the Courts.

  4. The Intensive Supervision Program Is… • An intermediate form of punishment which permits carefully selected state-prison sentenced offenders to serve the remainder of their sentences in the community rather than in prison. ISP is a "prison without walls“. • A highly structured and rigorous form of community supervision which involves extensive client contact, surveillance, a restrictive curfew and urine monitoring (two to three times per week) for alcohol and drugs, including marijuana.

  5. The Intensive Supervision Program Is… • An application screening process which selects only those inmates who have the potential to succeed on ISP and will not jeopardize community safety. • A process which seeks input from the sentencing judges, prosecutors, police, victims, pre-sentence report writers, and probation/parole officers.

  6. The Intensive Supervision Program Is… • A supervision program which mandates full-time employment, onerous community service, maintenance of a budget and diary, payment of all court ordered financial obligations, and payment toward child support, and the cost of the program. • A program that requires participants to address their addictions and other problems through the use of special services and treatment, as they work their way toward completion of the program.

  7. ISP Strives to Achieve the Following Goals: • Reduce the number of offenders serving state prison sentences by permitting them to be resentenced to an intermediate form of punishment. • Improve the utilization of correctional resources by making additional bed space available for violent criminals. • Provide an alternative to incarceration for selected offenders that is less costly and more effective.

  8. While on ISP, our participants… • Must adhere to imposed curfews. • Must remain drug and alcohol free. • Must maintain full-time employment. • Must complete 16 community service hours each month. • Must attend treatment. • Must pay court imposed financial obligations and fees.

  9. ISP Means… Discipline • Officers impose strict curfews and home-confinements on participants. • Violating program rules may lead to temporary custodial placement, or to permanent return to state prison.

  10. ISP Means… Hard Work • Participants must maintain full-time or part-time employment. • Participants must fulfill all court imposed financial obligations.

  11. More Than Just a Punishment ISP Means… • Our participants go through rigorous inpatient and outpatient treatment programs as well as self-help programs such as AA, NA, and GA. • Many attend cognitive skills or other psychologically oriented workshops headed by professionals or their officer.

  12. ISP Works Low Recidivism Rate Only 11.3% of ISP graduates were convicted of a new indictable offense after three years in the community.

  13. ISP Works Low Cost • Compared to state imprisonment, ISP supervision costs approximately 4 times less. • Since 1983, ISP has saved the State of New Jersey over 399 million dollars in avoided prison costs.

  14. ISP Works Contribution to the Economy Since 1983, more than $29,000,000 has been collected in restitution, fines, fees, and penalties.

  15. Contribution to the Community ISP Works Since 1983, ISP participants have performed over 3 million hours of community service. • The cost would amount to over 21 million dollars, if participants were paid the minimum wage.

  16. How Do We Supervise Our Participants? • ISP officers devote approximately 80% of their time to direct field supervision. • Caseloads are generally maintained at a maximum of 20 participants per officer. • Participants are seen at regional offices, home, work, treatment programs, andcommunity service sites.

  17. The Central Office The Research Side… ISP maintains its own in-house research/evaluation and MIS staff. • The administrative office in Trenton is networked to the six regional offices for exchange of electronic mail and data.

  18. The Casenote System The Research Side… This system was developed specifically for ISP by in-house staff. ISP officers are equipped with laptop computers & smartphones that access the ISP Casenote System in the field.

  19. The Casenote System The Research Side… Officers record detailed information on all aspects of participants’ activities: contacts made, employment, treatment, community service and court activities. The software enables officers to readily monitor compliance with program standards.

  20. The first ISP participant was released into the program on September 29, 1983. A Look Back… • In 1983, ISP had 3 regional offices – North, Central and South. • The first ISP participant graduated on July 31, 1984. • In April 1991, ISP graduated its 1000th participant. • Active Caseload in January 1984: 56 • Active Caseload in January 1994: 708 • Active Caseload in January 2004: 1266

  21. Over 71,000 applications have been received since 1983. Of those who have applied, over 15,000 have been admitted. Over 6,900 participants have graduated from ISP. At present, there are 1310 actively supervised participants on ISP. ISP Statistics Today

  22. Monthly community service compliance was 99%. ISP participants’ overall employment rate 95%. Monthly contact compliance was 100%. ISP Statistics

  23. Accessibility 24 Hours Per Day, Every Day Why Does ISP Work? Participants can contact their ISP officers or a covering staff member 24 hours a day, every day of the year via phone or page to a smartphone.

  24. Thorough Substance Abuse Monitoring Why Does ISP Work? • Participants are screened as frequently as three times per week . All participants are randomly monitored, with 85% of participants monitored on a regular basis. • ISP uses different techniques, such as the EMIT system and oral swabs.

  25. Treatment As the Cornerstone Why Does ISP Work? • Regional offices offer group meetings and educational seminars in topics, such as parenting skills, budgeting, child abuse, addiction, relapse, and AIDS. • ISP uses more than 100 outpatient and in-patient substance abuse, alcoholism, and psychological treatment providers.

  26. Tough Sanctions Why Does ISP Work? Every program infraction results in the imposition of a sanction. • Among the most commonly applied sanctions are incident reports, increased curfew restrictions, home detention, and short term incarceration. • Participants who abscond from supervision are vigorously sought, extradited and face an additional charge of escape.

  27. Any Questions? Intensive Supervision Program 171 Jersey Street, Building 6 Trenton, NJ 08625 (609) 984-0076

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