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

(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.