third way that they could be served, which is totally allowable under the law but was not really thought about in the first place, where basically we are using all aspects of the law. 100% of it can also be spent on intensive committee supervision. the other elements of the law was that it established a post- release community supervision and this population that was supervised by parole, in essence. non-serious, non-violent population. and only on their first offense. we will talk more about this later in the presentation, but in fact, we have 67 of our current roughly about 310 that have 11 or more prior felony convictions. on average come the population that is coming from -- on average, the population and is coming from state prison have prior convictions.

and the majority of others have very serious convictions. the state was not just looking at incarceration. we have a very high risk population. and san francisco have a high- risk population, whether you're talking about probation or mandatary -- mandatory crs because we do try to do so much to rehabilitate an individual and keep them on probation lager and make more intense than would, let's say, a county like fresno. and what that does is increase the risk level. does that are released from state prison that are the non- serious, non-ryland, non-sex are subject to -- a non-violent, non-sex are subjected to provisioned by a probation officer. one of the great aspects of allies that it finally began to give the probation department tools to use in lieu of a very

lengthy, cumbersome, ineffective processes. one of those tools was incarceration. if eight -- an individual violates by either absconding or some other violation, it gives the local department to the opportunity to take immediate, swift, and serious sanctions. that is what all the research tells us to do. if somebody violates and the punishment is not for three weeks to six weeks down the road and all this time they are sitting in an expensive jail bad, we have done nothing to change their behavior. the flash incarceration is a wonderful tool. and for those individuals that are successful, the post-release cases, for six months and they have not been arrested, and they have met all of the terms and conditions of their supervision and the goals that we have set for them in their individual treatment and rehabilitation plan, the chief of adults

rehabilitation can terminate at the end of six months if there has been no incarceration. many charlie, this population is terminated -- mandatory early -- mandatorily, we have created a population that response to rewards and sanctions. you want to have a four to one ratio. the evidence tells us this. and you want to rev two hundred hours of a treatment modality and the -- you want to have 200 hours of a tree limb a gaudy and beyond that, you have diminishing returns. we are taking all of that science and we are taking all our policies and our practices into our supervision model. other key elements of the public safety realignment is parole revocation. those are now served in county

jail rather than state jail for up to six months. that is significantly impacting a share, which she will talk about, in terms of the population. perot has complete control on who they violate and who begins to -- parole has complete control on who they are valid and who begins to fill up the county jail. in 2013, the parole violations will stop being heard by what they call the board of prison hearings. they will be heard by the local court. that is another shift of workload and resources to the local level. custody credits, under the new law, those serving sentences in county jail, they're getting a date for date. the college four to two days in terms of credit. but it is really a day for a credit. if they are sentenced to six months for whatever reason in jail, in fact, they will spend 50% of that time. they will spend three -- three

months. alternative custody. it authorizes the use of home detention and electronic monitoring for the shares discretion. our shares department has very successfully been using electronic monitoring for a very long time. that is why they have so successfully manage their jail population, that and many other innovative programs. it also allows probation to utilize electronic monitoring and some other alternative sentences so that we basically, are not just incarcerating individuals, by changing behavior. supervisor mar: electronic monitoring is an ankle bracelet, or what is used these days? >> that is correct. it is as you would think of it, an ankle bracelet with a signal that ties back to a sort of black box, as you think of it, or through the telephone lines. it gives a minute notice if an individual goes out of range of

where they are supposed to be at. there is an automatic notification that happens. law enforcement is notified and respond accordingly. in terms of the impact to adulterations is a berkeley, -- of the old probation specifically, our caseload are those who would have been parolees under the old law. our case load is 110% of what ccp projected. as of today, we have received approximately 306 clients. that was as of the end of june. we also anticipate that we will be up to within about a six month time frame, four hundred 56. that is where the range of our supervision cases will be, somewhere between 450 to 500. and that is just on the post- release cases.

other cases that we have under the 1170 h sentencing, and is another thing san francisco has to be proud about, is that there are a lot of jurisdictions that are just getting straight jail sentences. what is unfortunate about that is that community supervision -- if a gimmick -- an individual is to be successful, they need to be transferred out of the community. that is where a lot of the needs are at. if they serve all of their time in jail and and are released, they have completed it. there is no way you would consider any type of supervision tale. that is not just important for supervising, but to give access to these individuals to the services and programs we are creating. our program has taken a very balanced approach. basically, we are seeing about a 50%, maybe a little under that when the report was made, 44%.

but it continues to grow. out of the 197 street jail sentences, 56%. what has skewed that number of a bit is that when a lot first went into effect in october, there were many cases that were pending. they were not approved in court because they wanted it passed and sent many of these individuals resentments. it built up a lot of -- individuals every sentence. it built up a lot of credits within the jail. the average length of time the street jail sentences, about 23 months. the jail time between these splits in his -- split senses about 14 months. and in the average time in jail is 24 months. this is the park relation i'm concerned about. the reason i am is that they are -- this is the part i am

concerned about. the reason i am is because they initially had so many said its credit. but the high sentence length, the splits and says, we are seeing from 55 months and then mandatory supervision, 78 months. this population will grow. if they are on supervision for 78 months, it will continue to grow and grow and grow. we do not plan on a supervising. we will treat this population like we do our probation population, and also like realignment gave us the tools for the post-release supervision. we will develop an individual treatment and rehabilitation plan based on an individual needs and risk assessment for every case. we go into the prisons and into the jails -- and there are some counties going into the jails, but we are actually going into the prison and doing a risk

assessment inside the prison. that allows us time to come back and begin to connect up the service needs for that individual and make the reentry plan. the other side benefit that we found from it is those that have been able to go in and we have been able to develop these plans for, they have a 100% report rate, as compared to someone in the southernmost state where we could not get down there because of a short time of notice. we have a harder at -- a higher cost on rate for those we have not make the connection early on. the current post-release committee supervision client's prior criminal history -- and this is where we talk about this being a non-serious, non-violent population. 28 of our cases have 1-2 prior felonies. 3-5 prior felonies, 93. over 11, 67 cases.

79% of our cases are high-risk clients. that is really important. i am proud that we can sit here and talk to you about what the risk levels are, how many prior serious and violent convictions. i want to thank my great staff for the presentation. but it took a lot of work on the front end. it took all the criminal justice partners coming together and creating a cross-agency plan how we would collect the data. the comptroller's office will talk a little bit later on, but from day one when we started talking about a realignment plan, knowing what the population was and what the demographic told us was critical so we could effectively create plans and manage and also have the data so we could change. we think we know what we think we know, right? but in reality, until we get

this population, we do not know what their needs are. it is important for the state to be in tune with not only to the population is, but where they're living and what their needs are. probation's response to a realignment is several things -- >supervisor mar: could i ask you to reemphasize how high risk the post-supervision clients are. the averages about eight convictions in that total population of people? >> that is correct. supervisor mar: i can see how high risk the population is. >> is very high risk. i want to tell the board how much we appreciate your support. during our last budget hearing when we began to see the data in this high risk level, it was immediately clear to me that i had to develop some work- load, some 21 caseloads for those highest risk cases.

this is the population where we talk about public safety. when you talk about 79% being high risk, it is a challenge in the first place. but those that have those kinds of convictions, they need intensive supervision. obviously, there have been many attempts. they have been in and out of the system and convicted many times to get 11 prior felony convictions. for us to develop a successful plan, we will have to spend more invalid -- more individualized time and that is what this will allow us to do. in addition to the reentry division -- and this includes the pre-release team and to those individual going into the jails and prisons. but there reentry division has been critical because part of that is the data. we have a dead -- a data element to this division. and also, those that are supporting the community correctional partnership, and

those writing the services, all of the money we have gotten from the state to put into the service dollars -- if we do not have anyone to write contracts, does not do any good. they have done a phenomenal job. the staff and committees have developed the plans and been a catalyst to the injured part -- interdepartmental communications. there has been so much work for public health and to create the capacity that we needed. the staff from both public health and my staff are both so skilled and i would like to recognize by name, jessica flintock, who is the director of the reentry division, and her staff. they have done a phenomenal job. we're also in the process of hiring 20 new deputy probation officers, and 17 of them will be for these cases.

we shifted initially because the population started coming in october. we have hired individuals who are a probation officer on regular cases, and then shifted them over. this has created holes in my regular probation department and increased their caseload. everybody within the department has taken on a significant workload waiting for these new staff to come. we did not have an existing probation officer list. and in fact, now we have done all of the interviews. another major thanks to the sheriff's department. they have done a background checks for us. we anticipate these 20 will record the very first part of august. supervisor mar: supervisor olague has a question. supervisor olague: i was wondering if you could give us some information on the demographic breakdown of this population. >> i have a slide on that. just a little bit later on. supervisor olague: ok.

and i have some questions related to -- i am really excited to be working with you guys. i am on the reentry council, as you know. it is really incredible work. the focus is truly on the rehabilitation of the individual. i think the majority of people want to be able to improve themselves and their lives. and without the resources, without the right type of counseling for substance abuse and the ability to heal, obviously come -- obviously, the incidences of recidivism increase. logic would tell anybody that. i do not think it takes a lot to figure that out. i notice there is a strong emphasis on motivational interviewing. at some point i want to have a better understanding of the cultural competency and the training that staff is required to do. and what the demographic makeup of the staff is, you know, just

the people dealing directly with this population. that is something being strongly considered. >> that is a good point and i will wait until we get there on into the slide. i can tell you about 60% of our population is african-american. very disparate. we will be focused on creating services and partnerships with in agencies. we went out to bid rfp for the probation dollars as well as the ab 109 dollars and we had to focus on how we wrote the rfp to have cultural competency be part of the proposals sent back to us in terms of how they would achieve it. as well as, we went out into the communities and communities where the population we know needs to be served, and we had two or of our correctional partnership meetings out in the committee trying to do outreach. in addition, we also -- for

example, of the new officers we are hiring, we know we need bilingual, spanish-speaking additional officers for that. five of the offer serves we are hiring have special -- of the officers we are hiring a special conditions on the hiring. they will have spanish-speaking skills. in addition, we have one additional for can't sneeze. -- for cantonese. it very closely mirrors the population that we're serving. i'm very excited for when we opened our community assessment service center. the alternatives will be providing services there, but when we wrote the contract in, we wrote it so that it would include not on the cultural

responsibility, but also not taking a one-size-fits-all approach. in terms of their needs, i can tell you without even looking at a slide, our populations need substance-abuse services. they need housing. they need education. they need jobs. but the types of things that date -- that we do not really talk about in terms of needs is if an individual has an anti- social, criminal attitude. they also need to go through a cognitive behavioral therapy class, such as thinking for a change. we reached out to the national institute of corrections and they are coming in august and will be training 30 of our staff. it will be probation staff. we have invited the sheriff's department and also leaders in the community alternatives, so that we can begin to also provide these types of services. because we do not want to just contract out for everything. we want our staff also actively

engaged. the shares will talk about i reentry prod -- a reentry pawed that we want to bring in and maybe bring inmates back from state prison maybe sooner than they are supposed to and then have them go through a program within the jail. we will have individuals go into the jails and put on this type of glasses. -- on those type of classes. supervisor olague: in the bay area, a lot of the emphasis is on rehabilitation and counseling. there are no -- there is not a lack of schools that focus on psychology in the bay area. what are the internships? are there partnerships that occur? city college, for instance, has a community mental health

certificate. california institute of integral studies has a certificate of mental health. i know these are people that are still working toward their licensure. >> that is a wonderful question yes, we do have partnerships. we have partnerships with a variety of schools. it is basically the students that come to us. but i think we have had students from ucsf, students from the local commander dick college, the major criminal justice program -- from the local college, the major criminal justice program at the state. and also, the program that i developed two years ago was to bring in internes and lobby the schools for school credits. that helps us to change the culture of the organization, moving toward a treatment model. in addition, retreated the use of probation service aids, which is a probationary class.

that individuals that are successful and do a good job and transit -- can transition into service aids and get some real experience. they take the test, and recently, we had a number of our interns and service aid actually take the test. that was part of the long-term succession plan. the other thing we're working on a strong partnership with is that we just had one of our officers, the deputy probation officer, who was just hired by the community college to be director of the criminal justice program for the southeast campus. we're working closely together. and in fact, designing a model to where we are opening a bayview office. we will probably have that open within this month. but in addition to having our officers go on campus to try to make it easier. for those students who are complying with their plan and going to school, we want to make it easier for them to report rather than have to make them,

all the way down to the hall of justice. in addition, we got an agreement with the community college to allow us to have priority registration for probationers and for prcs and if ab 109 and1170's. people talk about rehabilitating, but in fact, they have never been rehabilitated. there are many life experiences that they just have not had. any individuals to help them through the process. that is why we are -- they need individuals to help them through the process. that is why we are trying to develop relationships with other departments like the department of public health. sometimes we will walk or drive them over there to make sure they get engaged with the referrals. >supervisor mar: i know your leadership at the state level has been around women in prisons reforms.

it looks like women are about 7%, or a much smaller percentage than men. how do we address the issues of women that are in this population? and relating to supervisor olague's question, it looks like 67% african-american and the 12% latino. my guess is there is a significant number whose first language is not english. i wonder how we deal with the immigrant or minority populations. >> a couple of things. one of the roles i had previously in the prison system was to reform all of the state prisons' female offender programs and services in prisons for the governor at that time. i develop a blueprint for the plan to the legislature that was

read acquired by -- required by the code. in san francisco, i reached out to the same experts and ask them to come to san francisco to help us in partnering at the sheriff's department to develop park -- develop responsive plans in our criminal-justice system. we needed to know the needs of the female population. a lot of times come if we take a look at the overall population needs, they are very skewed. when you actually disaggregate the numbers, the needs are very different. i'm happy to report that they anticipate that plan will be done. we had a series of workshops meetings involving my staff, community staff, and i'm also happy to report that i went to the seller balked foundation and ask them askzoellerbach

foundation -- i went to the zoellerbach foundation and ask them for a grant. our grants have been for bastad women and children were already -- had been for women and children di. our focus has been young women and children. in addition, when i talked about rfping out money for services, we also put in their gender related testing for competency. the money we distribute will be ensuring the adequate services for the women we are surprising.

in terms of the language and access, certainly, we use the language i drop the department. but in addition, we have special conditions that we put on, whether it be spanish-speaking, cantonese, or other languages to help with that communication. but also, within the the agencies that we are developing partnerships with, we are working to refer clients to the right type of service program so that the individual will be comfortable and having meaningful experience. that is a three-pronged strategy. the partnership so far with this service providers include, just a few example, the asian neighborhood divine -- design, job training, the emergency stabilization housing units, three behavioral health, mental health, substance abuse and case management kapalua housing combined -- and case management,

housing cop, the other thing thi have gone after a lot of its grant dollars. we have been very successful. we received over a $1 million grant for substance abuse and job training. it is one of the second chance grant. i treated a probation alternatives course. that is when we were able to drop our population of who we were sending to present. we didn't just not send them. we have this very intensive court that focuses on wraparound services and a treatment team that involves the district attorney, that department, and that -- and the public defender in a specialized court room and we have the services wrapped around them. it is not a one-size-fits-all. it is looking to see where this individual will be successful within this program. supervisor avalos: i have another meeting within finance,

but at the same time it is going to be about 15 mads long. i will set out. it gets -- about 15 minutes long. i will step out. i will be back because i'm very interested. christina olague will take over as chair. >> thank you very much, supervisor. the 5 quis learning center, -- the 5 quis learning center, probation had no services. we reached out to the sheriff's department and the five keys charter school. we have empty rooms and broken desks and chairs. the we have clear that out and now it's a live learning center where we have graduated individuals with their ged and high school diplomas. we also created at the same type of learning center within we actually had a graduate that was part of the graduation ceremony during this