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Chapter 1-B
The Department Accurately Classified Offenders to Reflect Special
Conditions; However, It Exceeded Caseload Guidelines in Fiscal
Year 2009 and Should Improve How It Reports This Information
The Department accurately classified offenders' case categories to reflect the
special conditions imposed on the offenders by the Board of Pardons and
Paroles (see text box). Of the 300 offenders tested at 10 parole offices,
Classification Process 299 were accurately classified within OIMS. The accuracy of these
Each offender is assigned a parole classifications is important because (1) different case categories require
officer who classifies the offender's
case category in QIMS based on the different supervision levels by the parole officers and (2) the Department's
special conditions imposed by the caseload guidelines establish differing caseload ratios based on the
Board of Pardons and Paroles
(Board). Any changes made to an categories of cases assigned to a parole officer.
offender's case category must
receive supervisory approval in The Texas Government Code and the General Appropriations Act (81st
order to become active in OIMS.
Changes to certain conditions also Legislature) establish differing maximum caseload ratios for the
require approval from the Board. Department's parole officers. The Department's policies establish
maximum caseloads that comply with the maximum caseload ratios
established in the General Appropriations Act. However, the ratios in the
Department's policies exceed the maximum caseload ratios required by Texas
Government Code, Section 508.1142 (see Table 1). For example, the Texas
Government Code establishes a maximum caseload of 60 regular offenders to
each parole officer, whereas the Department's policy and the General
Appropriations Act set the maximum caseload at 75 regular offenders to each
parole officer.
Table 1
Regular 60 offenders to 1 parole officer 75 offenders to 1 parole officer 75 offenders to 1 parole officer
Therapeutic Community 35 offenders to 1 parole officer Not applicable a 75 offenders to 1 parole officer
Electronic Monitoring 20 offenders to 1 parole officer 25 offenders to 1 parole officer 25 offenders to 1 parole officer
(Intensive Supervision)
Super-Intensive Supervision 11 offenders to 1 parole officer 20 offenders to 1 parole officer 14 offenders to 1 parole officer
Program
Sex Offender 24 offenders to 1 parole officer Not applicable a 30 offenders to 1 parole officer
Special Needs Offender 35 offenders to 1 parole officer Not applicable a 45 offenders to 1 parole officer
Program
a These caseload ratios were not specifically mentioned in the General Appropriations Act.
An Audit Report on Parole Division Operations at the Department of Criminal Justice
SAO Report No. 11-008
October 2010
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