Item Description:
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Establish 2025 Adult Corrections Facility rates for housing residents
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Resolution:
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BE IT RESOLVED, that the following rates for the incarceration of individuals in the Adult Corrections Facility be charged to committing jurisdictions in 2025:
• Straight time confinement, $228 per resident day
• Work Release confinement, $228 per resident day - gross
• Work Release confinement, $208 per resident day - net
• Work Release residents to be charged a per diem of $20 per day
• Electronic Home Monitoring (EHM) and Work Release EHM, $30 per day - gross
• Work Release EHM, $10 per day - net
• Work Release EHM clients to be charged a per diem of $20 per day
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Background:
The Adult Corrections Facility (ACF) is authorized to charge a daily amount, that is a per diem, for confinement of residents to: (1) the arresting municipalities for those misdemeanor clients who are sentenced to the ACF; (2) other Minnesota counties that request that individuals convicted by their courts be incarcerated in the ACF; and (3) the Hennepin County Sheriff's Office for confinement of overflow residents from the jail.
Each year, the ACF per diems are reviewed and updated using a methodology prescribed by Minnesota Statute 383B.128. There are two primary components. First, the net ACF costs (2023 actual expenditures less program generated revenues) are divided by the 2023 actual resident days. Second, the resulting amount is then adjusted by the Consumer Price Index (CPI) for the year ending June 30, 2024 (2.63% increase for the Minneapolis-St Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI Metropolitan Area; published by US Department of Labor/Bureau of Labor Statistics on July 11, 2024).
DOCCR is recommending that the client- portion for Work Release and Work Release EHM remain constant at $20/day for 2025; the ACF uses a sliding fee scale that discounts this fee based on poverty guidelines. Straight-time EHM clients are not assessed the client portion as this population tends to be unemployed with limited capacity to pay the daily client rate.
The cost of EHM is significantly less than the cost of in-house incarceration and continues to provide municipalities with a financial incentive to support alternatives to incarceration for low-level offenders which facilitates their ability to manage costs.
Below is a summary of the proposed 2025 ACF Per Diems:
• Straight time confinement, $228 per resident day, which is an increase of $6 from 2024 per diem ($222)
• Work Release confinement, $228 per resident day - gross, accounts for both the municipality and resident charges
• Work Release confinement, $208 per resident day - net, reflects the portion billed to the municipality (excludes the resident charge)
• Work Release resident client fee of $20 per day, no change from 2024
• Electronic Home Monitoring (EHM) and Work Release EHM, $30 per day - gross, accounts for both the municipality and resident charges and will increase $2 from the 2024 rate of $28
• Work Release EHM per diem is $30 per day. Work Release EHM clients are charged a per diem of $20 per day and the net portion of $10 is billed to the municipality, which is an increase from the 2024 rate of $8
recommendation
Recommendation from County Administrator: Recommend Approval