Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 18 - Correctional Institutions and Department of Correction › 101k - Formula and Procedures for the Application, Review and Award or Denial of Requests for Funds, and Providing for the Waiver or Amendment of Such Formula › Section 18-101k-1 - Definitions

Current through July 10, 2024
(a) "Department" means the department of
			 correction.
(b) "Commissioner"
			 means the commissioner of correction.
(c) "Residential programs" means those
			 offered in "halfway houses", providing twenty-four hour care, supervision, and
			 supportive services to inmates who are supervised in the community. Residential
			 program services are those provided by private, non-profit community or locally
			 based organizations or units of local government.
(d) "Nonresidential programs" means those
			 programs providing daytime or episodic community correction services to inmates
			 who are supervised in the community and their families, or victims of crime.
			 Nonresidential program services are those provided by private non-profit
			 community or locally based organizations or units of local
			 government.
(e) "Volunteer
			 programs" means those programs offering services provided by unpaid volunteers
			 under the auspices of private, nonprofit community or locally based
			 organizations or units of local government.
(f) "Service areas" means the five community
			 correction geographic areas in the state corresponding to the health systems
			 agency regions established pursuant to the National Health Planning Resources
			 and Development Act, Public Law 93-641.
(g) "Comprehensive State Community Correction
			 Plan" means that document issued annually by the commissioner pursuant to Sec.
			 18-101i
			 which describes in detail the department's plans in community
			 corrections.
(h) "Private Sector
			 Match" means in kind funds and/or services provided by the community based
			 service providers as required by the department in its contractual
			 agreements.
(i) "Client Population
			 Ratio" means the number of correctional clients returning to a particular
			 service area compared to the total number released in need of service. Client
			 population ratios for all service areas are specified as necessary in the
			 comprehensive state community correction plan and are employed by the
			 department as necessary along with other criteria to establish the levels of
			 services needed in each service area.
(j) "Nonclient Criteria" means those service
			 requirements for community programs which are not directly client related
			 including administrative functions, fiscal accountability, cost efficiency and
			 economy, public information and education, capacity for community organization,
			 resource development and coordination with other programs and such other
			 services and activities as specified by the department.
(k) "Residential Facility Criteria" means
			 service requirements for residential facilities to include 24-hour supervision,
			 counseling, pre-release services, crisis intervention, employment and job
			 development, housing assistance, public education, child care, transportation
			 and such other activities and services as specified by the
			 department.
(l) "Nonresidential
			 Facility Criteria" means service requirements for community correctional
			 programs to include counseling, substance abuse, mental health, pre-release
			 services, crisis intervention, employment and job development, housing
			 assistance, public education, child care, transportation, volunteer and such
			 other activities and services as specified by the department.