Bill Text: IL HR0138 | 2015-2016 | 99th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Urges the Department of Human Services and Cook County to enter into all Redeploy Illinois agreements allowable pursuant to P.A. 98-0060.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-1)
Status: (Passed) 2015-03-05 - Added Co-Sponsor Rep. Camille Y. Lilly [HR0138 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2015-HR0138-Introduced.html
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1 | HOUSE RESOLUTION
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2 | WHEREAS, Research has found that non-violent youth are less | ||||||
3 | likely to become further involved in
criminal behavior if they | ||||||
4 | remain in their home communities and if appropriate services | ||||||
5 | are
available that address underlying needs such as mental | ||||||
6 | illness, substance abuse,
learning disabilities, unstable | ||||||
7 | living arrangements, and dysfunctional parenting; it has also | ||||||
8 | been demonstrated that it is less expensive than a sentence to | ||||||
9 | the Department of Juvenile Justice; and
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10 | WHEREAS, Redeploy Illinois is designed to provide services | ||||||
11 | to youth between the ages of 13 and 18
who are at high risk of | ||||||
12 | being committed to the Department of Juvenile Justice; a fiscal | ||||||
13 | incentive is provided to counties to provide services to youth | ||||||
14 | within their home
communities by building a continuum of care | ||||||
15 | for youth who are in the juvenile justice
system; counties link | ||||||
16 | youth to a wide array of needed services and supports within | ||||||
17 | the home
community, as indicated through an individualized | ||||||
18 | needs assessment; services are provided in the least | ||||||
19 | restrictive manner possible, and can include case
management, | ||||||
20 | court advocacy, education assistance, individual/family/group | ||||||
21 | counseling,
and crisis intervention; and
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22 | WHEREAS, The average annual cost to serve a youth in the | ||||||
23 | Redeploy program in 2013 was
approximately 6% of the annual |
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1 | cost to house a youth in the Department of Juvenile
Justice; in | ||||||
2 | 2013, the average per capita cost to house a youth at the | ||||||
3 | Department of Juvenile Justice was a reported $111,000; in | ||||||
4 | 2013, 352 youth received full Redeploy Illinois program | ||||||
5 | services with an appropriation of
$2,385,100; this equates to | ||||||
6 | an annual Redeploy program cost per youth of $6,776; in 2012, | ||||||
7 | 238 fewer youth were committed to the Department of Juvenile | ||||||
8 | Justice because of the Redeploy Illinois program,
saving | ||||||
9 | Illinois taxpayers nearly $11.7 million in unnecessary | ||||||
10 | incarceration costs for 2012; the Redeploy Illinois program | ||||||
11 | reduced overall Department of Juvenile Justice commitments in | ||||||
12 | the 4 pilot sites by
nearly 50% (599 fewer youth) over the 5 | ||||||
13 | years relative to the 3-year baseline average; research
found | ||||||
14 | that court evaluation commitments to the Department of Juvenile | ||||||
15 | Justice in these sites were reduced by 87% over
the 5 years | ||||||
16 | relative to the 3-year baseline average; in the first 8 years | ||||||
17 | of the program, participating counties sent 1,036 juveniles to | ||||||
18 | the Department of Juvenile Justice; this was a steep decline | ||||||
19 | from the projected 2,268 youth that were likely to have been | ||||||
20 | sent
based on the previous 3-year commitment trend; it | ||||||
21 | represents a 54% reduction in Department of Juvenile Justice
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22 | commitments over the life of the program; through 2012, the | ||||||
23 | Redeploy program diverted 1,232 youth saving the State a | ||||||
24 | conservative
$60,000,000 in unnecessary incarceration costs; | ||||||
25 | each funded Redeploy Illinois program site is required by | ||||||
26 | statute and contract to reduce its
commitments to the |
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1 | Department of Juvenile Justice by a minimum of 25% compared to | ||||||
2 | their baseline; in 2012, compared to the 3-year baseline, the 8 | ||||||
3 | Redeploy Illinois program sites in
operation combined to reduce | ||||||
4 | eligible Department of Juvenile Justice commitments in their | ||||||
5 | counties by 64%; and
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6 | WHEREAS, Based on its success, the Redeploy Illinois | ||||||
7 | program was expanded from 4 sites to
8 in January 2009; serving | ||||||
8 | nearly 25% of all Illinois counties, the Redeploy sites | ||||||
9 | continued to effectively reduce the
incarceration of hundreds | ||||||
10 | of youth while also holding the line on the use of local
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11 | detention; many counties in Illinois lack the resources to | ||||||
12 | effectively serve delinquent youth locally; a lack of local | ||||||
13 | programs and services plays a significant role in the court's | ||||||
14 | decision to
commit a youth to a correctional facility; and
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15 | WHEREAS, The funds provided to the Redeploy sites fills the | ||||||
16 | gaps in their continuum of services,
allowing them to | ||||||
17 | cost-effectively serve youth in their home communities and | ||||||
18 | reduce the
system's reliance on corrections; this progressive | ||||||
19 | effort to build on the work done in other states such as Ohio | ||||||
20 | and
Pennsylvania, which successfully reduced juvenile | ||||||
21 | incarceration rates through similarly
structured programs, is | ||||||
22 | paying off; 2010 cost benefit analysis indicated that on | ||||||
23 | average, the 8 Redeploy sites reduced
their commitments in 2010 | ||||||
24 | by 53% from their baselines; according to the per capita cost |
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1 | of incarcerating one juvenile in Department of Juvenile | ||||||
2 | Justice, this decrease in
commitments translates to a | ||||||
3 | $9,038,927 cost avoidance for the State; youth are being | ||||||
4 | successfully treated in their own communities and kept from the
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5 | devastation of incarceration, saving the State money, reducing | ||||||
6 | the number of crime
victims, and creating safer communities | ||||||
7 | across Illinois; and
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8 | WHEREAS, P.A. 98-0060 provides that in a county with a | ||||||
9 | population exceeding 2,000,000, the Redeploy
Illinois | ||||||
10 | Oversight Board may authorize the Department of Human Services | ||||||
11 | to enter into an agreement
with that county to reduce the | ||||||
12 | number of commitments of juvenile offenders, except that the
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13 | agreement may encompass a clearly identifiable geographical | ||||||
14 | subdivision of
that county; the geographical subdivision may | ||||||
15 | include, but is not limited to, a police district or group of
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16 | police districts, a geographical area making up a court | ||||||
17 | calendar or group of court calendars,
a municipal district or | ||||||
18 | group of municipal districts, or a municipality or group of
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19 | municipalities; therefore, be it
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20 | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | ||||||
21 | NINETY-NINTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we | ||||||
22 | urge the Department of Human Services and Cook County to enter | ||||||
23 | into all Redeploy Illinois agreements allowable pursuant to | ||||||
24 | P.A. 98-0060; and be it further
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1 | RESOLVED, That suitable copies of this resolution be | ||||||
2 | presented to the Redeploy Illinois Oversight Board, the Cook | ||||||
3 | County Board President, the Director of the Illinois Department | ||||||
4 | of Human Services, and the General Assembly.
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