Georgia ~ Department of Correction? 1989 ANNUAL REPORT Georgia Department of Corrections FY 1989 Annual Report Table of Contents Admissions/Departures/Escapes 11 Admissions to Prison 13 Average Daily Population 12 Costs Per Inmate Day 16 Facilities List 20 Felony Admissions 14 Georgia Correctional Industries 19 Inmate & Probation Facilities Map 10 Misdemeanant Admissions 15 Organizational Chart 7 Overview 8 Probation 17 Profile of Inmates in Prison 25 Programmatic Costs Per Inmate 12 Message from the Commissioner The Honorable Joe Frank Harris Governor of Georgia and The Georgia General Assembly Atlanta, Georgia 30334 Dear Governor Harris and Members of the General Assembly I am pleased to submit the Annual Report for the Department of Corrections for Fiscal Year 1989. The inmate and probation population continue to grow at unprecedented rates, and the department's efforts to meet the resulting challenges in the near term and in the long run are indicated in this report. With your help in FY 1989, the department was able to add more than 1,600 urgently-needed prison beds in less than six months' time, an achievement that was the product of a level of teamwork and d etermination seldom seen before in state government. Thanks to your thorough understanding of the concept of a balanced approach to corrections, work was begun on a new 200-bed shock incarceration probation center (Georgia's third), and funding was provided for completion and startup of new detention and d iversion centers to house probationers in a neighborhood setting. Meanwhile, appropriations were secured to continue work on three large state prisons under construction that eventually will provide space for more than 2,200 offenders. In summary, by working shoulder to shoulder during FY 1989, we were able to take significant steps toward achieving our mission as defined by the people of Georgia: to do everything possible to make sure there is appropriate space available to confine, rehabilitate or punish hardened criminals, while providing Georgia's judges with an innovative array of alternatives to prisons for those offenders who qualify Commissioner Bobby K. Whitworth While we know the challenges of the 1990s will test our mettle and further stretch our resources, the teamwork we exhibited throughout the 1980s reassures us that we have the right stuff #: to meet - and beat - the tests of the coming decade. I look forward to working with you. Sillcerely,% Bobby K. Whitworth Commissioner Introduction The Georgia Department of Corrections and the Board of Corrections, working closely with the governor and General Assembly, reinforced its commitment to the people of Georgia in fiscal year 1989 by renewing its pledge that whether it takes more bricks, bars and barbed wire or progressive probation options, the public must be kept safe from convicted criminals. The vow was not made of idle words, but was backed by money and resolve. Georgia in FY 1989 embarked on an aggressive building program in a crash effort to add more than 3,000 new beds at a costof$4lmillion. The FY 1989 plan was to relieve as soon as possible some of the system's dire overcrowding problems until a host of large new prisons could be built in the decade of the 1990s in anticipation of massive growth in the criminal population by the year 2000. Georgians, through their legislators, said at the beginning of FY 1989 that they simply had had enough. They wanted convicted criminals dealt with, and they wanted overcrowding in their local jails eased. The corrections department and the legislature, hearing the people's message, put new bedspace on such an imperative construction schedule that David C. Evans, then commissioner of Corrections, remarked that the name of his organization easily could be changed to the Department of Construction. At the same time as the crash construction program was progressing, the probation arm of the corrections department was moving aggressively to implement new programs and streamline existing efforts to oversee the semi-confinement or supervision of more than 110,000 persons serving sentences outside the prison setting. In FY 1989, start up funds were provided for four new low-security detention centers and one diversion center to house a total of 600 offenders outside prison. Thus, while Georgians understand the need for a probation system that offers appropriate options to prison for some categories of lawbreakers, citizens showed in FY 1989 they are willing to support the bricks-and-mortar approach to corrections in order to confine and punish the high-risk classes of offenders. The Georgia Department of Corrections, with its staff of almost 10,000 dedicated professionals, moved swiftly in FY 1989 to carry out that twopronged mandate of the people, wisely keeping one eye on the challenges to be met in future years. 6 FY89 Annual Report r------------ Governor Joe rr ~nk H.:ur is I I Board of Corrections Commissioner Bobby K. Whitworth I Eaecut i ve Secretary Franca OrWILIIlond LCentral Office Opeon Nl"'wo;om~ I Special Asehtant Ron Stamey I Prob~t ion ,. DPputy Comml!i!ilonPr Vince rallln \ Executive Aaaiatant Aubrey Walker I il Aaalatant Conua1aaionec Paul Melvin I ~ Aaaiatant Ccaaiaaloner Cly~ Stovall I - >-Jnfonu11t lon Sl!lrvlnta Board ' Specla 1 Evt~nta publication ' Graphic Youth Develop~~nt~nt -Leqlalatlve Servlcea Lrocllltl.. O.volo,...nt ' H.slntenance Aaal&tant Colrll'li5slonec H4nk Plny"n I I Aaalatant Ca.u~laaloner Berry Alton floyd I t:lannln Evaluation ' Stat iat lee LRhk/rleot llon-nt I Aaalatant C0111alaaloner Rod Coqqtn I L8ud.ot I Industry Deputy Commt!lsioner Joe G<"Jrnftr l Hum~n Services DPputy Comm1ssloner Karon Lewlg ~Institutional Ope rat ion ~!fender Adm1n1strat1on r-rnmate Aff~tlrs ' ~women Trans 1 t tonal Services -Community ~l"'rvlci"'S 1--Cr-ntPr OpPrl'l~ l.nnR ~F"Irolrl orror.:.t tons "-IntC'rStittf> Comr<'~ct - .. Sper.1al A.lternat 1ve Jncarcorat ion ' F'roqritmS Compll .:.nee o.-.puty CommlsslonPr Ronn II" LitnP r-r t n.oJncP/O;,t<'l ~A.dm in 1!it rilt 1 ve Services 1-M.:.rkl"'t 1nq/S;, les r-au;, 11 t y/tnq1 nf'('r !ng t--Huml'!n Rl"'!iOUCCPS L-rroduction r-Personnel r-Tralnlnq rEAP '-EEOC I- Human Resource Develop. ~Recruitment I- Employee Mqmt. Relation "rlnlnlstrs~ ion DPputy Coi'I1T'IlS!Iioner Winfred J,.,dd ..__PI rv1r<'~m!i '-Hr-.., I~ h '-M<"'nt.o~l 11<"'<'1 lth ~Fond/r~rm ~nruq .';f"t V !C('S "-C"ofl'pli,o~ncl"' t--A.ccount 1nq/P.'Iyrol l ' r-Purch>OJ!i! nq/\;H~"' Custody CPnt r ... J Opprat ions t-conn\Jn! rat !0n o; t--syo;tP.~!i DPvr>lorm~"'nt t-Auo; 1nPS!i Off 1 rP Or~r. ._,Contr.oJ r .ts/Gr<'t nts FY89 Annual Report 7 Overview Fiscal Year 1989 will be remembered by executives and staff of the Georgia Department of Corrections as the year they looked into their crystal ball and were privileged to catch a telling glimpse of the future. What they saw was alarming. While the prison population in Georgia had averaged just over 18,000 throughout FY 1988, projections predicted the inmate population would burgeon to more than 19,500 by the end of FY 1989. They were right. However, as troubling as the short-term growth numbers were, the longer-range projections seen through the smoky glass were not only startling, but frightening. Researchers and planners with the department learned that if present drug-related crime and sentencing trends remain the same, there will be over 59,900 prison beds needed in Georgia by the year 2000. The numbers vividly depicted for the seers the urgent nature of the prison emergency in Georgia: with its 84 varying facilities now barely equipped to handle some 20,000 prisoners, how would Georgia deal with the need to house an estimated 32,000 more in the next decade? The tables, charts and graphs on the following pages will show the FY 1989 workload at the Department of Corrections, but they do not begin to tell the story of how the department has begun to prepare to manage the flood tide of offenders expected to be washing over it in the 1990s and beyond. However, reacting to the obvious crisis, plans were made and $41 million appropriated in FY 1989 to construct a new 800 bed medium security prison in Washington County and a 200 bed boot-camp style prison in Treutlen County. Put on a fast-track schedule to add 200 beds each (except Rogers CI in Reidsville, which added 400 beds) to their existing facilities plants were Coastal Correctional Institution, the Georgia Diagnostic and Oassification Center in Jackson, Georgia Women's Correctional Institution in Hardwick, Central Correctional Institution in Macon, Lowndes CI and Ware CI. Also, a new facility for women was built in Milan that will house 150 female offenders. While all of this new construction was put on the fast-track funding schedule designed to make space available to offenders as quickly as within six months, the use of the new prison in Washington County was about two years away. The peek into the future produced other areas in which there was a high level of concern. It became obvious in FY 1989 the cost of incarcerating offenders in the prison of the future will continue to rise drastically, driven not only by factors such as inflation, but by the need for specialized treatment for an ever-enlarging category of lawbreaker infected with AIDS or addicted to drugs, alcohol or both. In FY 1989, $1.5 million was appropriated to pay for special housing and handling for HIV positive inmates for part of the year only, with more to come later. From an estimated cost of just over $34 a day per inmate in 1988, the cost of incarceration jumped in FY 1989 to at least $40 per day per inmate. Thus, 8 FY89 Annual Report Georgians at the end of FY 1989 were paying about $14,600 yearly to house and feed each and every inmate in the general population. Meanwhile, the department's efforts aimed at making the offender pay for his or her supervision or rehabilitation outside the prison setting were being expanded and enhanced in FY 1989. The eight programs administered by the Division of Probation expanded their caseload from a total of 120,948 in FY 1988 to 129,331 in FY 1989, which resulted in an equally-great increase in the amount of money offenders earned on probation programs and were able to pay back to society in the form of restitution. Probationers in FY 1989 paid direct restitution of more than $5.76 million to victims, up more than $700,000 from the previous fiscal year. They also paid fines totaling $23.6 million and child support of more than $10.2 million, while their community service work was valued at $5.72 million. In all, Georgia probationers in FY 1989 paid into the system some $45.3 million that otherwise would have come out of the pockets of Georgia taxpayers. Detention centers, which are residential settings designed for low-security inmates, were started up in Evans, Laurens, Taylor and Union counties, each having the capacity to house between 100 and 150 offenders who are to make partial restitution to society through unpaid community service work details. In Chatham County, the startup of a 50 bed diversion center provided those offenders renting space there the opportunity to work at regular jobs in the community while attending self-improvement classes at the center when not working. In FY 1989, Georgia's 18 diversion centers charged offenders $1.77 million in room and board. Obviously, more are being planned. Increased emphasis was placed on Georgia Correctional Industries programs in FY 1989 as well, because the division has such potential to help offset the cost of general operations. Through its 14 manufacturing operations, the division was able to generate more than $16 million in sales to the state in FY 1989, returning annually about $84,000 to the treasury after expenses. Also during the year, approximately 900 inmates were involved in numerous farming programs scattered across the state. Those operations helped offset the rising cost of incarceration and gave offenders the opportunity to learn a trade or profession while paying their debt to society. Although FY 1989 will not go down in history as a record year for dollar value of construction (that distinction appears to have been reserved for FY 1990 and FY 1991), it will be remembered as the red-flag year in which the Georgia Department of Corrections saw the future and stepped forward boldly to meet it. FY89 Annual Report 9 Georgia Department of Corrections Inmate & Probation Facilities State Prisons OCounly prisons wilh slate inmates I2J Transi lion Centers '-Shock Incarceration DiversiOn Centers :. Detent10n Centers v Probation Off1ces P = proposed THOMAS 0 0 GRADY \] 10 FY89 Annual Report FY89 ADMISSIONS TO PRISON JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN TOT NEW ADMISSIONS FROM COURT 656 669 821 554 564 560 537 644 850 737 1066 1269 8927 SHOCK INCARCERATION 63 64 65 71 66 60 82 58 59 72 14 115 849 !PAROLE REVOCATIONS (NEW ~ENTENCE) 110 154 207 119 112 147 146 195 248 166 279 377 2260 !PAROLE REVOCATIONS (NO !NEW SENTENCE) 30 37 49 28 28 23 41 52 43 27 49 64 471 !PROBATION REVOCATIONS (PARTIAL) 72 69 108 60 75 79 99 72 122 105 119 167 1147 PROBATION REVOCATIONS (REMAINDER) 121 141 168 97 81 84 113 114 160 128 231 337 1775 TOTAL 1062 1134 1418 929 926 953 1018 1135 1482 1235 1818 2329 15429 FY89 DEPARTURES FROM PRISON ~WVERNOR'S EMERGENCY RELEASE JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN TOT 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 300 371 279 950 tpAROLED 520 625 545 493 506 613 621 645 739 626 657 544 7134 !PAROLED TO ANOTHER STATE 20 36 37 39 25 46 28 34. 48 34 53 58 458 SPECIAL REPRIEVE 5 5 1 9 55 49 46 25 4.2 0 1 1 239 SUPERVISED REPRIEVE AMMENDED OR REMITTED TO PROBATION BY COURT 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 257 542 628 1427 9 10 6 3 3 8 3 7 5 22 84 REMITTED TO PROBATION BY fPAROLE BOARD 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 SUSPENDED SENTENCE ~ONDITIONAL TRANSFER 00 1 0 0 0 21 23 25 23 15 12 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 9 17 21 27 56 36 285 SENTENCE EXPIRED 14.3 184. 14.8 174. 162 147 14.2 172 178 158 173 163 1944 COMMUTED BY PAROLE BOARD 520 156 4.14. 99 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 1192 COMMUTED BY THE COURT 2 3 5 0 7 2 3 3 0 8 3 3 39 SPECIAL ALTERNATIVE INCAR- 57 55 56 68 58 59 87 52 4.1 76 60 49 718 CERATION SUCCESSFUL COMPLETITION OTHER 3 1 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 0 00 7 TOTAL 945 951 1074. H93 1923 1784. 1298 1097 1237 908 831 933 14474 FY89 ESCAPES/APPREHENSION !ESCAPES lAPPREHENDED SAME MONTH OF ESCAPE TOTAL APPREHENDED (ESCAPED THIS MONTH OR IN A PRIOR MONTH) JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN TOL 27 12 21 10 9 13 8 11 10 16 9 10 156 14 9 13 8 7 7 6 6 5 8 6 3 92 19 17 15 12 13 12 12 8 9 11 13 8 149 FY89 Annual Report 11 AVERAGE DAILY PRISON POPULATION 1979-1989 19,559 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 Food & Farm $1,234 Programmatic Costs Per Inmate FY89 Total $14,535 - Security & Security Training $7,174 Dept Admin..Qverhelld $407 Central Admin. & Support $382 Rehabilitation Programs $1,465 lnst. Admin. & Diagnostics $733 Health & Mental Health $1,704 Daily Costs Security & Security Training Food&Farm Plant Operations & Maint Health & Mental Health Inst. Admin. & Diagnostics Rehabilitation Programs Central Admin. & Support Depart Admin.JOverbead Total Excluding Capital Outlay Estimated Capital Outlay Costs Total Including Capital Outlay $19.65 3.38 3.93 4.67 2.01 4.01 1.05 __!11 39.82 1.92 $41.74 12 FY89 Annual Report FISCAL YEAR 89 ADMISSIONS TO PRISON BY TYPE OF CRIME AND RACE 4 4 3 0 Viol Non Viol Prop D-Sale d-Poss DUl/HTV Sex TOTAL ADMISSIONS: 15,429 [S2) WHITE ~NON-WHITE Other FY89 Annual Report 13 FISCAL YEAR 89 FELONY ADMISSIONS TO PRISON BY RACE AND SEX 11 10 9 z(IJ 8 8 (IJ 7 C-~'eIJt,n-l..