Texas Department of Criminal Justice Strategic Plan: Fiscal Years 2015-2019 Page: D-9
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FY 2016-2017 Performance Measure DefinitionsDefinition
The total number of residential facility beds in operation and funded through Community Corrections (cc) either in
community corrections facilities (CCFs) or county correctional centers (CCCs), (excluding contract residential programs).Type measure Explanatory
Key or Non-Key? Non-Key
This measure is intended to capture the extent to which CC funds are actually used to provide residential
Purpose community-based diversions from prison.
Community Justice Assistance Division's (CJAD) Field Services Section receives facility, funding source, and bed
capacity information from program proposal cover sheets submitted by Community Supervision and
Corrections Departments (CSCD) as part of the Community Justice Plan (CJP) process. CSCDs are required
to submit an amended cover sheet if bed capacity changes. Clerical and planning staff enters information into a
CJAD Integrated Database (IDB) system. This database also contains funding data (Diversion Program,
Data Source and Community Corrections, Treatment Alternatives to Incarceration, or Residential Substance Abuse Treatment)
Collection for each facility. CJAD collects data via the Intermediate System (ISYS), a case-based offender tracking system.
CSCDs submit data electronically to ISYS. CJAD's Information System Management Section extracts data for
relevant performance measures and place data in a database file. A Research Specialist queries the database for
relevant data using Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS). Data is copied into an Excel workbook
used for presentation of statewide sums of county level data and calculation of the grant beds in operation.
Sum of Community Corrections Facilities (CCF) and County Correctional Centers (CCC) residential facility
Methodology/Calculation bed occupancy for CC funded beds as reported to ISYS. For facilities with multiple funding sources, the
reported occupied beds are proportioned based on the facility's overall percentage of CC funding.
Data Limitations This measure does not include residential treatment beds funded through other sources (Diversion Program,
Treatment Alternatives to Incarceration, or federal funding).
Cumulative/non- Non-cumulative
cumulative?
New Measure? No
Target Attainment A Higher than target
Total number of offenders successfully completing treatment in the Treatment Alternatives to Incarceration Program (TAIP)
Definition during the period.
Type measure Output
Key or Non-Key? Non-Key
Purpose This measure is intended to show the total number of persons who successfully completed TAIP.
The information comes from the Community Justice Assistance Division (CJAD) Treatment Alternatives to
Incarceration Program (TAIP) quarterly report form. Each Community Supervision and Correction
Data Source and Department (CSCD) funded by CJAD with TAIP funds reports the total number of offenders successfully
Collection completing treatment. Data is entered into the TAIP excel workbook by a Research Specialist. A Research
Specialist queries the workbook to count offenders successfully completing treatment.
Methodology/Calculation The measure is simply a head count of offenders successfully completing treatment during the fiscal year.
.a L n .This count may include some duplication when offenders are placed in and complete different TAIP programs
Data Limitations (outpatient, residential, detox, intensive outpatient) in the reporting period.
Cumulative/non- Cumulative
cumulative?
New Measure? No
Target Attainment A Higher than targetAppendix D
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Texas. Department of Criminal Justice. Texas Department of Criminal Justice Strategic Plan: Fiscal Years 2015-2019, report, July 7, 2014; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth639359/m1/77/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.