Corrections and Community Supervision, Department of
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Mission
The Department of Corrections and Community Supervision is responsible for providing services that offenders need in safe and secure facilities, preparing offenders for release, and ensuring they receive appropriate monitoring and support while under community supervision. The goal of the Department is to enhance public safety by ensuring the successful completion of an offender’s sentence in order to lower the risk of reoffending.
Budget Highlights
The Executive Budget recommends $3.133 billion for the Department ($2.631 billion in the General Fund; $310 million in Capital Funds; and $192 million in Other Funds). This is a net decrease of $216.2 million from the 2012-13 budget. Changes to appropriations primarily reflect decreases related to the retroactive portion of the NYSCOPBA and Council 82 settlements granted in 2012-13, slated facility closures, projected inmate population decline, and re-prioritizing capital projects. These decreases are partially offset by the filling of crucial health and safety positions.
The Executive Budget recommends a workforce of 29,471 FTEs for the Department, an increase of 134 FTEs from 2012-13, resulting from the need to fill crucial health and safety positions as well as titles needed to fulfill operational and legislative mandates offset by the decrease resulting from the slated closure of the Bayview and Beacon Correctional Facilities.
In 2012-13, DOCCS undertook a comprehensive review of its workforce. Based on these findings, in 2013-14, DOCCS will enhance their educational, vocational, and employment-readiness programs with the goal of better preparing inmates for their return to the community through the second chance act recidivism grant and parole diversion programs. DOCCS seeks to employ research-based best practices to focus on programs which have the greatest impact on reducing recidivism.
| Category | Available 2012-13 |
Appropriations Recommended 2013-14 |
Change From 2012-13 |
Reappropriations Recommended 2013-14 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| State Operations | 2,998,025,000 | 2,791,779,000 | (206,246,000) | 58,249,000 |
| Aid To Localities | 31,171,000 | 31,171,000 | 0 | 25,579,000 |
| Capital Projects | 320,000,000 | 310,000,000 | (10,000,000) | 847,648,000 |
| Total | 3,349,196,000 | 3,132,950,000 | (216,246,000) | 931,476,000 |
| Program | 2012-13 Estimated FTEs 03/31/13 |
2013-14 Estimated FTEs 03/31/14 |
FTE Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Administration | |||
| General Fund | 160 | 160 | 0 |
| Special Revenue Funds - Federal | 646 | 646 | 0 |
| Enterprise Funds | 11 | 11 | 0 |
| Community Supervision | |||
| General Fund | 1,476 | 1,600 | 124 |
| Correctional Industries | |||
| Enterprise Funds | 3 | 3 | 0 |
| Internal Service Funds | 285 | 285 | 0 |
| Facilities Planning and Development | |||
| Capital Projects Funds - Other | 30 | 30 | 0 |
| Health Services | |||
| General Fund | 1,674 | 1,678 | 4 |
| Parole Board | |||
| General Fund | 71 | 71 | 0 |
| Program Services | |||
| General Fund | 2,693 | 2,739 | 46 |
| Supervision of Inmates | |||
| General Fund | 19,420 | 19,340 | (80) |
| Support Services | |||
| General Fund | 2,868 | 2,908 | 40 |
| Total | 29,337 | 29,471 | 134 |
Note: Most recent estimates as of 01/22/2013