Administrative Rules of Montana › Department 20 - CORRECTIONS › Chapter 20.28 - REGIONAL CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES › Subchapter 20.28.1 - Establishment of New Regional Correctional Facilities › Rule 20.28.101 - DEFINITIONS

Current through Register Vol. 13, July 5, 2024
As used in this subchapter, the following definitions
				  apply:
(1) "ACA standards" means the
				most recent edition of the "American Correctional Association Standards for
				Adult Correctional Institutions" published by the American Correctional
				Association, 4380 Forbes Boulevard, Lanham, MD 20706-4322.
(2) "Actual prisoner days" means the sum of
				the number of inmates housed at the facility each day of the fiscal year, July
				1 through June 30.
(3) "Allocated
				direct costs" means the costs that are common to more than one unit within the
				facility, such as food and utility costs. An allocated direct cost is divided
				between the departments within the facility using an appropriate
				ratio.
(4) "Allocation" means the
				assignment of costs, or a group of costs, to one or more areas in a reasonable
				and realistic proportion to the benefit each area receives.
(5) "Average daily population (ADP)" means
				the total number of inmates housed for the year divided by the number of days
				in the year and can reflect the average population for the state portion of the
				facility, the county portion of the facility, or the total facility average
				population.
(6) "Average population
				ratio" means the average daily state inmate population as a percentage of the
				total facility average daily population.
(7) "Bed ratio" means the number of
				contracted state prison beds as a percentage of total identified facility
				beds.
(8) "Capital costs" means the
				costs of the buildings, major improvements, and equipment (over $5,000) reduced
				by the actual amount of any federal and Montana Department of Corrections
				capital improvement grants.
(9)
				"Chart of accounts" means a listing of specific accounts utilizing the
				state/county budget, accounting, and reporting system (BARS) to categorize
				expenditure types in accordance with the Montana Department of Corrections per
				diem worksheet.
(10) "Department"
				means the Montana Department of Corrections (MDOC) established in
				2-15-2301, MCA.
(11) "Depreciation" means an accounting
				method of recovering a capital cost expenditure.
(12) "Facility" means a regional correctional
				facility.
(13) "NCCHC standards"
				means the most recent edition of the "National Commission of Correctional
				Health Care Standards for Adult Correctional Institutions" published by the
				National Commission on Correctional Health Care, P.O. Box 11117, Chicago, IL
				60611.
(14) "Operating costs" means
				expenditures excluding personal services that relate to the operation of the
				facility and directly benefit state inmates.
(15) "Per diem rate" means the cost per
				inmate per day that the department pays to the operator of the regional
				correctional facility and reflects both the direct and indirect costs of the
				operation.
(16) "Per diem
				worksheet" means the MDOC Per Diem Calculation Worksheet for Regional
				Correctional Facilities that the regional correctional facility and the
				department must use to calculate the regional correctional facility per diem
				rate.
(17) "Shared or common areas"
				means areas of the facility that are used by, or for the benefit of, both state
				prisoners and other facility inmates.
(18) "Square footage ratio" means the square
				footage of the state portion of the facility compared to the square footage of
				the whole facility and is expressed as a percentage.
(19) "State portion" means that part of the
				regional correctional facility that is utilized for the confinement or benefit
				of state prisoners over which the department has responsibility for
				custody.
(20) "Unallowable costs"
				means programs and services that do not have a direct benefit to persons
				confined in a regional correctional facility.
(21) "Volume ratio" means the cubic footage
				of the state portion of the facility compared to the cubic footage of the whole
				facility and is expressed as a percentage.
53-30-507, MCA; IMP,
					 53-30-503,
					 53-30-504,
					 53-30-505,
					 53-30-506,
					 MCA;