Correctional Alternative Placement Program

Idaho
Department of
Correction

Standard
Operating
Procedure
Title:
Correctional Alternative Placement Program
(CAPP)

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Control Number:
607.26.01.015
Version:
5.0
Adopted:
06/11/2010

Pat Donaldson, chief of the division of management services, approved this document
on 11 /26/2019.
Open to the public: Yes
SCOPE
This standard operating procedure (SOP) applies to any Idaho Department of Correction
(IDOC) staff member, contract staff, vendor, volunteer, mentor, or inmate who provides
services or participates in the Correctional Alternative Placement Program (CAPP).
Revision Summary
Revision date (11 /26/2019) version 5.0: Removed references to discontinued parole diversion
program and forms.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Board of Correction IDAPA Rule Number 06.01.01.607 ........................................................ 1
Policy Control Number 607................................................................................................... 1
Purpose ................................................................................................................................ 2
Responsibility ....................................................................................................................... 2
Standard Procedures ........................................................................................................... 2
1. Inmate Population Groups Receiving Services ............................................................... 2
2. Entry Process Steps ....................................................................................................... 3
3. RDU/CAPP Case Management Steps ............................................................................ 4
4. Re-entry Process Steps .................................................................................................. 6
5. CAPP Removal Process ................................................................................................. 9
Definitions ........................................................................................................................... 11
References .......................................................................................................................... 11
BOARD OF CORRECTION IDAPA RULE NUMBER 06.01.01.607
Public Participation in Program Activities
POLICY CONTROL NUMBER 607
Correctional Participation in Program Activities
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PURPOSE
The purpose of the standard operating procedure is to provide guidance and standards for
the Correctional Alternative Placement Program (CAPP), which houses and provides
programs to Idaho Department of Correction inmates.
RESPONSIBILITY
Chief of the Division of Management Services
The chief of the division of management services is responsible for:
• Implementing this SOP
• CAPP contract oversight
• Ensuring IDOC employees and contractors are practicing the guidelines, standards,
and procedures provided herein.
Chief of the Division of Prisons
The chief of the division of prisons is responsible for:
• Ensuring correctional facility reception and diagnostic unit (RDU) staff compliance
with guidelines, standards, and procedures provided herein.
• Ensuring education and treatment staff compliance with the CAPP contract.
Chief of the Division of Probation and Parole
The chief of the division of probation and parole is responsible for ensuring compliance
with community placement activities and aftercare as described herein.
CAPP Case Manager
The CAPP case manager is responsible for:
• Performing the functions and requirements as specified in the CAPP contract,
324.02.01.001, Retained Jurisdiction; 607.26.01.002, Structured Re-entry Case
Management, and 607.26.01.014 Program Management for Inmates and ensuring
compliance with guidelines standards and procedures provided herein.
• Communicating and recording all interactions, noteworthy observations, responses
to problems, successes, challenges, and other relevant assessment information in
the IDOC’s Offender Management System (OMS).
STANDARD PROCEDURES
The following procedures explain the selection criteria and processes for placement at the
CAPP.
1. Inmate Population Groups Receiving Services
The CAPP provides programming services to the inmates that qualify according to
assessments completed in RDU and case management services to all inmates housed at
the facility.
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Selection Criteria
Inmates must meet the IDOC Inmate Placement Matrix criteria:
• No known pending felony charges or felony investigations where the inmate is a
suspect.
• No active felony detainer (except for notification).
Low-risk Crime Severity Index:
• Has a TPD or FTRD within five years
• Has a PED or PHD within five years and has a FTRD within 20 years
High-risk Crime Severity Index:
• Has a TPD or FTRD within three years
• Has a PHD within three years and is within five years of FTRD
Life Sentence (high or low-risk crime severity index):
• Has a TPD within three years
2. Entry Process Steps
Inmates Recommended for CAPP
Functional Roles and
Responsibilities Step Tasks
RDU and IDOC Facility
Program Managers 1
Review placement matrix. Send recommendations to the
facility placement coordinator.
RDU and Facility
Placement
Coordinators 2
Submit an Inmate Placement Request Form for each
inmate in accordance with SOP 322.02.01.002, Inmate
Placement Process, and submit all forms for approved
moves to the inmate placement group.
Inmate Placement
Group 3
In accordance with SOP 322.02.01.002, Inmate Placement
Process, coordinate with the inmate transport group the
inmate worker’s move to the CAPP facility.
Final placement is at the discretion of the IDOC.
Inmate Workers for Private CAPP Facility
Functional Roles and
Responsibilities Step Tasks
CAPP Deputy Warden
of Programs or
Designee 1
Send email to the contract monitor to notify them of the
need for inmate workers.
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CAPP Contract Monitor 2
Send email to the facility program managers to notify them
of the need for inmate workers at CAPP.
Facility Program
Managers 3
Have case managers check caseloads for inmates who
potentially meet the criteria to be placed at CAPP and can
work.
Facility Case Managers 4
Review caseloads for inmates to be housed at CAPP who
met the criteria to be inmate workers.
Send list of qualifying inmates to the facility program
managers.
Facility Program
Manager 5 Send list of inmates recommended for placement as
CAPP workers to the CAPP contract monitor.
CAPP Contract Monitor 6
Review list to ensure inmates fit placement criteria.
Send list of inmates to CAPP facility head or designee.
CAPP Deputy Warden
of Programs or
Designee 7
Review the candidate list.
Determine whether the inmate worker candidate is suitable
for work in the CAPP facility.
If suitable, submit an Inmate Placement Request Form for
each inmate in accordance with SOP 322.02.01.002,
Inmate Placement Process, and submit all forms for
approved moves to the inmate placement group.
If not suitable, notify the contract monitor via email.
Inmate Placement
Group 8
In accordance with SOP 322.02.01.002, Inmate Placement
Process, coordinate the inmate worker’s move to the
CAPP facility with the inmate transport group.
Final placement is at the discretion of the IDOC
CAPP Case Manager or
Designee 9 Conduct an orientation for inmate workers.

3. RDU/CAPP Case Management Steps
Functional Roles and
Responsibilities Step Tasks
RDU Placement
Coordinator 1 Review status of inmate.
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Functional Roles and
Responsibilities Step Tasks
RDU 2
If the inmate is a rider, perform step 2 and then 3. If the
inmate is not a rider, proceed to step 3.
To determine whether the inmate meets the criteria for the
CAPP, see SOP 303.02.01.001, Classification: Inmate.
• If meets criteria – prepare an OMS-generated
Retained Jurisdiction Placement Evaluation
Form, notify the sentencing court, and continue
with step 3 and
• If does not meet the criteria – notify the
sentencing court of the appropriate rider
placement.
RDU Placement
Coordinator 3
Conduct RDU processes
Create the inmate’s inmate management plan in OMP
module.
In accordance with SOP 322.02.01.002, Inmate Placement
Process, complete and email an Inmate Placement Request
Form to the inmate placement group to begin the inmate
placement process.
Inmate Placement
Group 4
In accordance with SOP 322.02.01.002, Inmate Placement
Process, coordinate the inmate’s move to CAPP with the
inmate transport group.
CAPP Deputy Warden
of Programs or
Designee 5
In accordance with SOP 607.26.01.014 Program
Management for Inmates, update the inmate’s program
documentation in the Offender Management System (OMS)
and the Corrections Integrated System Hybrid (CISH).
CAPP Case Manager 6
Manage inmate activities and programming per the CAPP
contract, SOP 607.26.01.014, Program Management for
Inmates and SOP 324.02.01.001, Retained Jurisdiction.
Make monthly treatment and/or programming updates in the
OMS.
If the inmate was removed from the facility and did not go on
probation or parole, enter a c-note under transfer summary
detailing the inmate’s progress in programs and why he was
transferred.
CAPP
Counselor/Instructor 7
Complete a monthly treatment note in the OMS as a c-note
entry indicating the inmate’s progress in the program
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Functional Roles and
Responsibilities Step Tasks
CAPP Case Manager 8
Timers:
Thirty days prior to an inmate’s anticipated program
completion:
• Email the CAPP contract monitor and PPO to
inform them of the anticipated completion date.
• Close out classes in OMP
• Notify the IDOC parole coordinator of the
inmate’s release date.
Riders (Court-Retained Jurisdiction):
• Riders two weeks before graduation – in
accordance with SOP 324.02.01.001, Retained
Jurisdiction, prepare and forward to the court an
Addendum to the Pre-sentence Investigation
(APSI) and a Recommendation Notice.
• The case manager must prepare and submit the
APSI to the sentencing court no more than
fourteen days and no less than seven days
before the estimated program completion date.
CAPP Case Manager 9
Upon the inmate’s CAPP completion, make a c-note entry in
OMS as a discharge summary and close out the classes in
OMP and CISH.
CAPP Deputy Warden
of Programs or
Designee 10
For riders leaving the CAPP facility to return to the county
jail for a rider review:
A week before program completion, send email to inmate
placement group containing the list of riders leaving CAPP,
the transport dates, and the counties where the riders will be
transported.
CAPP Contract
Monitor or Designee 11
Complete background checks and send authorization to
release paperwork to CAPP on the following inmates:
• Timers
• Retained jurisdiction inmates releasing to Ada
County
4. Re-entry Process Steps
Functional Roles and
Responsibilities Step Tasks
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Functional Roles and
Responsibilities Step Tasks
CAPP Case Manager 1
During orientation – initiate reentry planning, to include
housing, employment, and release (non-riders) transport
options.
Meet with the inmate at a minimum two months before
estimated completion date to discuss reentry plan,
identifying potential residence. If inmate has private
residence option:
• Contact home verifying willingness to house
inmate and explain general rules of supervision.
• Verify information on all residents of the home:
names, ages, probation/parole status and
relationship to inmate.
CAPP Case Manager 2
If inmate reports that no private residence and/or
transportation options are available, confirm by reviewing:
• PSI
• Supervision notes
• Visiting module
• Inmate accounts
CAPP Case Manager 3
If confirmed that no private residence option is available:
• Review inmate checking account in Reflections
for deposit/spending history. If inmate does not
have money available to pay for housing,
contact potential external support resources
(visitors, family, or other individuals who have
deposited funds into inmate’s account) to verify
or eliminate potential support for full or partial
financial assistance with transitional housing
costs.
• If all potential external financial support
resources are exhausted, work with inmate to
submit an application to a transitional home and
submit transition-funding application for review.
CAPP Case Manager 4
Sixty days before estimated completion date:
• Enter release plan in Reflections in probation
plan module.
• Send email to designated P&P district contact
advising that probation plan is in Reflections.
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Functional Roles and
Responsibilities Step Tasks
• Enter c-note that the plan has been entered and
P&P has been notified.
PPO 5
Review the received email and probation plan entered
Reflections module to determine whether the residence is
suitable for the inmate and within fourteen calendar days of
receiving the email, accept or reject the residence plan.
• If accepting the plan – approve in Reflections
probation plan module.
• If rejecting the plan – deny the plan in
Reflections probation plan module and send an
email to case manager with alternative housing
option for case manager and inmate’s
consideration, and cut and paste into the OMS
as a c-note entry.
If plan is rejected for same inmate more than once, PPO
reviews the case with a section supervisor before denying
any subsequent plans.
CAPP Case Manager 6
Verbally notify the inmate of the status of the PPO’s
decision regarding the residence plan, and make a c-note
entry in OMS.
If the residence plan was rejected by the PPO, the CAPP
case manager has two weeks from the date the case
manager received the PPO’s email to email the PPO an
alternative plan.
All retained jurisdiction inmates who successfully complete
CAPP must be released to the district on schedule and
cannot be denied release due to a PPO- rejected residence
plan. If a residence plan is not accepted by the PPO before
the inmate’s release, the PPO will have to develop a
residence plan after the inmate’s release.
Timers are an exception and must be held at CAPP or
moved to an IDOC-run facility until their parole plan is
completed.
CAPP Case Manager 7
If the inmate is a rider returning to ADA County, a parole
violator or a termer, ensure that the inmate has
transportation to his destination.
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5. CAPP Removal Process
The following process steps are used to request an inmate’s removal from the CAPP.
Riders Only
Functional Roles and
Responsibilities Step Tasks
CAPP Case Manager 1
Identify an inmate who is failing CAPP programming or has
refused to program.
Prepare CAPP Rider Review and Recommendations Form.
CAPP Case Manager 2
In consultation with the program counselor/ instructor,
coordinate approval for a rider review committee case
review.
Scan and email (or fax) the form and supporting
documentation to the CAPP deputy warden of programs, or
designee.
CAPP Deputy Warden
of Programs or
Designee 3
Review the received CAPP Rider Review and
Recommendations Form and supporting documentation,
and:
• If in agreement with the recommendation – mark
‘concur’ on the form.
• If not in agreement with the recommendation –
mark ‘do not concur’ on the form and notify the
case manager.
• Scan and email (or fax) the form and supporting
documentation to the rider review committee.
Send a copy to the CAPP contract monitor.
Rider Review
Committee 4
Review the received CAPP Rider Review and
Recommendations Form and supporting documentation;
and within three working days determine whether:
• The inmate is recommended for a higher level of
intervention.
• The relinquishment of the court’s jurisdiction is
clinically appropriate for the inmate.
• The inmate will continue treatment at CAPP.
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Functional Roles and
Responsibilities Step Tasks
Rider Review
Committee 5
Notify the CAPP deputy warden of programs of the
decision, and scan and email (or fax) the form and
supporting documentation to:
• CAPP contract monitor and
• CAPP deputy warden of programs
The rider review committee chairman, or designee, must
make a c-note entry in OMS to document the decision.
CAPP Deputy Warden
of Programs or
Designee 6
Notify the facility case manager of the decision.
Ensure the case manager notifies the court if an inmate has
an assigned court date that needs to be changed
CAPP Case Manager 7
If the inmate was recommended for a higher level of
intervention, or is to continue treatment at the CAPP facility,
proceed to step 8.
If relinquishment of court jurisdiction is clinically appropriate
for the inmate – skip to step 9.
File the completed CAPP Rider Review and
Recommendations Form and all supporting documentation
in the inmate’s case file.
CAPP Deputy Warden
of Programs or
Designee 8
In accordance with step 7:
• Notify the inmate of the decision if at CAPP
• Make a c-note entry in OMS. (Then go to step
10.)
CAPP Deputy Warden
of Programs or
Designee 9
In accordance with step 7:
• Notify the inmate of the decision if at CAPP.
• Generate an Addendum to the Pre-sentencing
Investigation (APSI) with a recommendation for
the court to relinquish jurisdiction.
• Ensure the inmate is placed in restrictive
housing until moved from the facility.
• Make a c-note entry in OMS. (The process
continues with step 10.)
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Functional Roles and
Responsibilities Step Tasks
CAPP Facility Program
Manager or Designee 10
In accordance with SOP 322.02.01.002, Inmate Placement
Process, prepare and email an Inmate Placement Request
Form to the inmate placement group to begin the inmate
placement process according to inmate status. Send a
copy to the CAPP contract monitor.
Timers Only
Functional Roles and
Responsibilities Step Tasks
CAPP Case Manager 1
Identify the inmate who is failing at CAPP and ask the
CAPP deputy warden of programs to review removal.
If inmate is refusing to program, have him sign a Refusal to
Program Form and notify the deputy warden of programs.
If the inmate has received a DOR and is recommended for
removal, notify the deputy warden of programs.
CAPP Deputy Warden
of Programs or
Designee 2
If in agreement with case manager for removal of inmate,
contact CAPP contract monitor.
CAPP Contract
Monitor 3
Communicate with deputy warden of programs to review
concerns for removal.
If in agreement with removal, make a c-note entry in OMS
and have the deputy warden of programs or designee,
prepare and email an Inmate Placement Request Form to
the inmate placement group in accordance with SOP
322.02.01.002 Inmate Placement Process to begin the
inmate placement process according to inmate status.
DEFINITIONS
Rider - Court: Inmates serving retained jurisdiction sentences
Termers and/or Timers: Inmates who are sentenced for a determinate and/or
indeterminate period of incarceration with the Idaho Department of Correction.
REFERENCES
CAPP Rider Review and Recommendations Form
CAPP Authorization to Release Parolee
CAPP Authorization to Release Timer
CAPP Contract
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Placement Matrix
Inmate Placement Request Form
Retained Jurisdiction Placement Evaluation Form
Addendum to the Pre-sentencing Investigation (APSI)
Standard Operating Procedure 303.02.01.001, Classification: Inmate
Standard Operating Procedure 322.02.01.002, Offender Placement Process
Standard Operating Procedure 324.02.01.001, Retained Jurisdiction
Standard Operating Procedure 607.26.01.002, Structured Reentry Case Management
Standard Operating Procedure 607.26.01.014, Program Management for Inmates

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