421#3c (DOC/DI) "Pen Pals" Inmate Training Program. HB30 - Conference Report

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2002 Session

Budget Amendments - HB30 (Conference Report)

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"Pen Pals" Inmate Training Program

Item 421 #3c

Item 421 #3c	First Year - FY2003	Second Year - FY2004
Public Safety
Institutions, Division of	FY2003 $75,000	FY2004 $75,000	NGF

Language
Page 312, line 12, strike "$399,495,769" and insert "$399,570,769".
Page 312, line 12, strike "$398,840,579" and insert "$398,915,579".
Page 313, after line 41, insert:
"F. Included in this appropriation is $75,000 each year from nongeneral funds for the Save Our Shelters "Pen Pal" program. The source of the nongeneral funds is from profits generated by prison commissary operations."

Explanation
(This amendment provides funding to expand the "Pen Pal" program operated by Save Our Shelters, a nonprofit rescue, adoption and advocacy group. This program pairs carefully selected inmates with difficult-to-adopt dogs rescued from public pounds for an intensive eight-week behavior training program to enhance the ability to place the dogs with families. Inmates are taught by a professional dog trainer to care for the dogs. The program provides inmates with a skill that can be used for employment upon release and also teaches the inmates teamwork, responsibility and respect.)

Item 421

Item 421	First Year - FY2003	Second Year - FY2004
Secure Confinement (35700)	$399,495,769	$398,840,579
Adult Rehabilitation and Treatment Services (35701)	FY2003 $24,216,596	FY2004 $24,216,596
Adult Security (35702)	FY2003 $375,279,173	FY2004 $374,623,983
Fund Sources:
General	FY2003 $381,535,792	FY2004 $387,568,501
Special	FY2003 $17,959,977	FY2004 $11,272,078

Authority: §§ 53.1-12, 53.1-19, 53.1-23, 53.1-24, 53.1-42, 53.1-43, 53.1-138, 53.1-188 and 53.1-190, Code of Virginia.

A. The Department of Corrections, in cooperation with the Departments of Conservation and Recreation, Game and Inland Fisheries, and Forestry, shall continue to pursue the use of inmates assigned to work projects at state parks and natural areas, wildlife management areas, fishing lakes, boat ramps and forests. A progress report on the implementation of this program shall be presented to the Governor and Chairmen of the House Appropriations and Senate Finance Committees by October 1 of each year.

B. Included in this appropriation is $60,000 the first year and $60,000 the second year from special funds which shall be paid to the Prison Visitation Project, Inc. The funding to support this appropriation shall be provided from profits generated by prison commissary operations.

C. Included in this appropriation is $17,159,147 the first year and $17,159,147 the second year from the general fund to contract with a private company to operate and maintain a 1,500-bed medium security correctional facility located in Brunswick County.

D. The Department shall continue to utilize up to $1,300,000 each year in federal funds from the Department of Criminal Justice Services to establish a structured treatment program for youthful offenders at St. Brides Correctional Center and to expand intensive substance abuse treatment services in correctional facilities. The Department shall submit annual reports on its progress in implementing this program to the Secretary of Public Safety and the Chairmen of the House Appropriations and Senate Finance Committees. Federal funds received by the Department of Corrections from the state prisoners component of the federal Residential Substance Abuse Treatment Program to implement the provisions of this paragraph shall be exempt from payment of statewide and agency indirect cost recoveries into the general fund. Funds received by the Department of Corrections pursuant to the federal Residential Substance Abuse Treatment Program for state prisoners program shall be used exclusively for the purposes specified in this paragraph.

E.1. The Department of Corrections is authorized to contract with other governmental entities to house male and female prisoners from those jurisdictions in facilities operated by the Department.

2.a. The State Comptroller shall continue the Contract Prisoners Special Revenue Fund on the Commonwealth Accounting and Reporting System to reflect the activities of contracts between the Commonwealth of Virginia and other governmental entities for the housing of prisoners in facilities operated by the Virginia Department of Corrections.

b. The Department of Corrections shall have the responsibility for recording and maintaining all appropriate accounting records and financial reporting of the Fund in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles. The State Comptroller and the Auditor of Public Accounts shall periodically review the Department's accounting and financial procedures for compliance with the requirement of this subparagraph.

c. The Secretary of Finance shall provide the department anticipation loans in such amounts as may be needed to pay the expenses included in subdivision d of this subsection and to make the transfers required in § 3-1.01 P of this act. Such loans shall be based on the revenue anticipated from payments by other jurisdictions for housing their prisoners and, notwithstanding the provisions of § 4-3.02 b of this act, may be extended for a period longer than twelve months.

d. Included in the appropriation for Items 419 through 421 is $40,997,895 the first year and $34,309,996 the second year from the Fund. These funds shall be used to pay the costs of operating St. Brides Correctional Center and Sussex II State Prison and part of the operating costs of Fluvanna Correctional Center for Women.