Florida Administrative Code › 33 - DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS › 33 - Departmental › Chapter 33-601 - CLASSIFICATION AND CENTRAL RECORDS › Section 33-601.602 - Community Release Programs

Current through Reg. 50, No. 138; July 16, 2024
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				Definitions.
(a) Cell Phone - refers to a
				wireless communication device used to communicate with individuals via air
				signals and assigned a telephone number with area code.
(b) Center Work Assignment (CWA) - The
				portion of the community release program for inmates that allows placement at a
				community release center to assist with the maintenance, food service duties,
				or assignment to outside work squads while confined at the facility.
(c) Community Release Center - A correctional
				or contracted facility that houses community custody inmates participating in a
				community release program.
(d)
				Community Release Program - Any program that allows inmates to work at paid
				employment or at a center work assignment, and to participate in education,
				training, substance abuse treatment programs, or any other transitional program
				to facilitate re-entry into the community while in a community release
				center.
(e) Community Study Release
				- The portion of the community release program that allows inmates to attend an
				educational or vocational facility or participate in a training program in the
				community while continuing as inmates of the facility where they are
				confined.
(f) Community Work
				Release (CWR) - The portion of the community release program that allows
				inmates to work at paid employment in the community while continuing as inmates
				of the facility where they are confined.
(g) Community Volunteer Service - An activity
				that allows inmates housed at a community release center to voluntarily work
				with a governmental or nonprofit agency in the community.
(h) Extenuating Circumstances - Refers to
				overall positive adjustment, program participation, re-entry needs, length of
				time served on commitments, length of time served in a community release
				program, or other relevant classification factors that warrant consideration
				for placement in a community release program.
(i) Institutional Classification Team (ICT) -
				For the purposes of this rule, the ICT is the team consisting of the warden or
				assistant warden, classification supervisor, chief of security, and other
				members as necessary when appointed by the warden or designee. The ICT is
				responsible for making work, program, housing, and inmate status decisions at a
				facility and for making other classification recommendations to the State
				Classification Office (SCO). At private facilities, the Department of
				Corrections representative is to be considered a fourth member of the ICT when
				reviewing all job/program assignment, transfer, and custody
				recommendations/decisions. If a majority decision by the ICT is not possible,
				the decision of the Department of Corrections representative is
				final.
(j) Net Earnings - Gross pay
				less withholding tax, social security deductions, and any legally required
				court ordered civil deductions.
(k)
				Non-advanceable date refers to an inmate's release date that is restricted from
				continuous, monthly gain time awards over the entire length of the sentence,
				including:
1. Tentative release date based
				upon offenses occurring on or after October 1, 1995;
2. Presumptive parole release date
				(PPRD);
3. 100% minimum service
				requirements, such as the Prison Releasee Re-Offender Act located in Section
				 775.082, F.S., or Three-Time
				Violent Offender cases under Section
				 775.084,
				F.S.
(l) State
				Classification Office (SCO) - The office or office staff at the central office
				level that is responsible for the review of inmate classification decisions.
				Duties include approving, disapproving, or modifying ICT
				recommendations.
(m) Work Release
				Inmate Monitoring System (WRIMS) - A web site application used by contract
				community release facility staff to record information related to an inmate's
				participation in a community release program.