An Age of hope: a National Effort for Corrections,

Rehabilitation and Social Re-integration of Offenders

THE OFFENDER REHABILITATION PATH (ORP)THE OFFENDER REHABILITATION PATH (ORP)

Presentation to Portfolio Committee : 22 August 2006

ContentContent Acronyms Introduction What is the ORP Breaking the Cycle of Crime Outlining the ORP ORP – The Process Benefits Progress Challenges

AcronymsAcronyms ORP – Offender Rehabilitation Path CAT – Comprehensive Assessment Team CIT – Correctional Intervention Team CRT – Case Review Team CMC – Case Management Committee CSPB – Correctional Supervision and

Parole Board UM – Unit Management

IntroductionIntroduction ORP – translating the White Paper on

Corrections into practice. Promoting corrections as a societal

responsibility & development of correctional centres into institutions of rehabilitation.

Embedded in mandate of DCS contributing to maintaining and protecting a just, peaceful and safe society

What is the ORP?What is the ORP?

Refers to the process of what happens to an offender from the point of entry (admission) into the correctional centre to the point of reintegration into society (social reintegration).

BREAKING THE CYCLE OF CRIME

INCARCERATION

SENTENCE

GOODCITIZEN

PAROLE

GOODCITIZEN

NON-CUSTODIAL

SENTENCE

UNCONDITIONAL RELEASE

Probationer

Parolee

Free

ORP

ORP

Pre Pre Sentence Sentence WorkWork

Outlining the ORP

1. ADMISSION2. ASSESSMENT/ ORIENTATION/ PROFILING IN

ASSESSMENT UNIT3. ADMISSION (HOUSING UNIT)4. INTERVENTION (CONTINUOUS)5. MONITORING AND EVALUATION

(CONTINUOUS)6. PLACEMENT7. PRE-RELEASE8. PLACEMNET OUT OF THE CORRECTIONAL CENTRE9. ADMISSION OF PROBATIONERS

ORP – The Process

1. Admission

• Welcoming (official appointed by Head of Correctional Centre)

• Identification & capturing of personal detail (Head Case Management Administration)

• Admission risk/needs assessment - immediate within 6 hours:

• Health status (Health care workers)• Mental health status re: suicide risk (psychiatric nurse) • Suicide risk assessments (Clinical counseling - psychologist /

psychiatric nurses/ criminologists/selected personnel/ nurses identified & trained to do assessments)

• Vulnerability (as above plus social workers/id and trained correctional officials)

• Criminological Assessment (Criminologists/ selected personnel)

• Consolidation of admission risk/needs assessment (Head Case mgmt/ selected officials)

• Comprehensive Medical/ Health assessment (Health Care Workers)

2. Assessment Unit: Assessment / Profiling

• Orientation/ induction of offender - (Head of Correctional Centre / Unit Manager assisted by officials from Development and Care and Corrections)

• Comprehensive risk/needs assessment by CAT (Comprehensive Assessment Team – coordinator, secretariat, officials from corrections, reintegration official & functionaries from Development and Care

• Profiling / analysis of assessment outcomes ( CAT)• Classification (CMC)• Development of correctional sentence plan (CAT)• Confirmation of classification (CMC)• Allocation to housing unit/ other correctional centre (CMC)

3. Admission (housing unit)

• Induction (UM)• Allocation of cases to Case Officers (UM)• Case files to be opened (Case Officers)

4. Intervention

• Implementation of structured day programme (Head of Correctional Centre, UM & programme coordinators)

• Implementation of correctional sentence plan (UM, CIT, professionals, service providers)

• Compile reports (CIT, professionals, service providers, Case Officer)• Case review (CRT)

5. Monitoring and Evaluation

• Case decision (CMC)

6. Placement

• Assessment and recommendations for possible placement on parole( CRT)

• CRT to provide recommendations to CMC for consideration and submission to CSPB

• CSPB to take decisions on possible placement on parole.• CMC to effect instructions of CSPB and to determine pre-release

programmes.

7. Pre - release• Preparation for release and reintegration (CRT)

8. Placement out of correctional centre (Parolees)• Pre-Admission

• Communication with Head of Community Corrections• Escorting• Handing over

• Admission at community corrections:• identification/verification (Head of Community Corrections)• orientation/induction (admission clerk)• classification of parolee (Head of Community Corrections)• allocation to correctional supervision ( Supervision committees)• management of correctional sentence plan (supervision committee)• Monitoring & Evaluation• Preparation for final release

9. Consideration for alternative sentences (Probationers)

• Pre-sentence Work• Admission directly from courts

• Identification• Orientation/Induction• Allocation to agency• Assessment• Monitoring & Evaluation• Preparation for complete release• Termination of sentence

BenefitsBenefits Assists the offender to adapt to the corrections environment and brings together agents

that give meaning to the six service delivery areas( Security, Facilities, Corrections, Development, Care, Social Reintegration)

Embedded in Unit Management principles

Underpinned by a multi-disciplinary approach - enhance teamwork and unity among correctional officials as rehabilitators (custodial & discipline)

Creates opportunity for societal involvement in rehabilitation of offenders

Provides a monitoring and evaluation framework that will corroborate or refute DCS claim to correcting offending behaviour, rehabilitation and promoting corrections as a societal responsibility

ProgressProgress Documentation completed:

Concept document Orientation manual Assessment and profiling tools Correctional Sentence Plan

Task teams have finalized pro-forma: Case file Structured day programme Job Descriptions Training schedule

Progress (cont….)Progress (cont….) Orientation on ORP using the role-play through experiential

learning (Centres of Excellence, 2 Private Prisons, SMS, new recruits)

Video to be used for orientation and training

Structures for CAT and CIT identified

Quality Assurance Committees established and process is ongoing to ensure the provision of programmes by external service providers with the aim to build capacity

ChallengesChallenges

Limited resources High turnover of scarce skills Marketing of new approach to offenders Orientation and retraining of all personnel on ORP Capacity building for monitoring and evaluation Strengthening of partnerships to promote Corrections as a

Societal Responsibility

An Age of hope: a National Effort for Corrections,

Rehabilitation and Social Re-integration of Offenders

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