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Corrections commissioner outlines reentry, treatment programs, costs and facility planning
Summary
The Department of Corrections presented data on the incarcerated population, treatment and reentry initiatives (including a CMS 1115 reentry waiver), staffing challenges, health‑care costs and plans for a replacement prison project funded in tranches.
Department of Corrections Commissioner Helen Hanks briefed the Criminal Justice and Public Safety Committee on prison population trends, treatment and reentry efforts, staffing levels and capital planning.
Hanks said the department continues to manage a population with a rising proportion of longer sentence structures, including a sizable share incarcerated for serious assaults. She reported about 45% of incarcerated people have an opioid use disorder (about 800 people), and that roughly 80% of those individuals have elected to participate in medication‑assisted treatment while incarcerated.
The department described expanded reentry supports: it received approval for a Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services 1115 reentry waiver that allows two provider and two peer contacts…
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