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The
department’s well-trained work force of 9,750 corrections professionals keeps
our communities safe by effectively employing the field’s best security
practices and proven re-entry programming to ready the offender population
approaching 40,000 inmates and 7,500 parolees in number for release and
reintegration in Arizona’s communities as civil and productive citizens.
Our
website is designed with you in mind providing news about our
agency and its operations including detailed information about our innovative
re-entry initiative, Getting Ready: Keeping Our Communities Safe, selected by the
Innovations in American Government program of the Ford Foundation and the JFK
School of Government at Harvard University as a 2008 award winner. Whether you
are seeking employment or searching the inmate data base for the status of a
specific offender, the following pages will keep you apprised of our activities
and outcomes including up-to-date department news stories.
Before
you begin your search, allow us to highlight some of the ways in which your
department of corrections is keeping Arizona’s communities safe.
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Institutional violence is down with inmate-on-inmate assaults cut by 46% and
inmate-on-staff assaults by 41%.
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Problem
solving is improved with 29% fewer inmate grievances and 63% less inmate
lawsuits about conditions of confinement filed.
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More
inmates are readied for release with 60% of the prisoner population having
earned general equivalency diplomas, the 13,917 inmates who earned GED
certificates make up a full 22.3% of all GED completions in Arizona. ADC also
provides jobs training in 16 career tracks with 13, 795 inmates prepared to
work. Currently, 74% of the inmate population is gainfully employed in prison.
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Relapse
to drugs and alcohol is down with 9% fewer positive UA test results in prison.
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Crime
victims are benefiting from inmates who have voluntarily contributed over $1.4
million to crime victims’ organizations and increased by 14% compliance with
court-ordered restitution.
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The
community is safer with recidivism by inmates who completed Getting Ready 35%
less than inmates of comparable risk who did not participate; their revocations
for technical reasons also down by 5%.
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Arizona
taxpayers benefit from fewer returns to prison with 26,000 fewer bed days used;
$1.6 million cost avoidance has accrued to date and will continue to grow.
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