Add positions for de-privatization of food services

Reduce nongeneral fund appropriations

Increase funding for medical costs

Reflect Governor’s October reductions in agency budgets

Implement targeted reductions

Provide funding for probation and parole caseload increase

Construct prison in Grayson County

Replace roofs at various correctional facilities

Adjusts funding available for supervision of sexually violent predators. The number of offenders defined as sexually violent predators released from prison to be supervised by probation and parole is less than had been earlier projected.

Eliminates funding for therapeutic transitional community programs. These facilities are operated by private vendors who contract with the Department of Corrections.

Closes Chatham Diversion Center. Diversion centers have been under-utilized by judges and have not operated at full capacity. Savings produced in FY 2009 will be used to pay severance and other costs. Additional savings will be available in FY 2010.

Closes Dinwiddie Field Unit. The inmates in this minimum-security facility will be transferred to other correctional facilities. The Department of Corrections will continue to operate its agribusiness activities at this site with inmates from other correctional facilities.

Closes Pulaski Correctional Center. Inmates housed in this minimum/low-medium security facility will be transferred to other correctional facilities.

Closes the main unit of Southampton Correctional Center. The inmates in this medium security facility will be transferred to other correctional facilities. The agency will maintain its agribusiness activities at this site with inmates from other facilities in the Southampton complex. It will also continue to operate the power plant and keep selected maintenance and support staff at the site. The agency will use inmates to strip the old buildings and then demolish them. It is the intent of the agency to build a new prison on this site in the future when the prison population increases sufficiently to warrant an additional prison.

Closes Tazewell Field Unit. The inmates in this minimum-security facility will be transferred to vacant beds in other field units.

Closes White Post Detention Center near Winchester. Detention centers have been under-utilized by judges and have not operated at full capacity.

Eliminates an analyst position in the medical services section. The responsibilities of that position will be transferred to the agency's central budget section.

Defers, in the first year, half of the equipment purchases the agency would normally make for its correctional institutions.

Eliminates a vacant accountant position in the accounts receivable/accounts payable section in the central office.

Eliminates contracts with a private vendor to provide food service at Greensville, Sussex I, and Sussex II correctional centers. The Department of Corrections can perform this function more cheaply than the private sector.

Eliminates the agency's Controller position and one support position.

Eliminates the 11 remaining day reporting sites for offenders under community supervision (probation or parole). Day reporting sites are used for offenders who need more intensive supervision or who have consistently violated their terms of supervision. The offenders would be returned to regular or intensive supervision by the probation and parole districts and would continue to participate in the programs which were offered in the day reporting sites, e.g. substance abuse treatment. To offset this increase in the caseload of probation and parole officers, the agency will increase the use of remote, electronic supervision of offenders who pose the least risk.

Eliminates positions used to support local drug courts. This activity is supported by the Supreme Court.

Eliminates a vacant headquarters buyer position.

Eliminates headquarters finance and real estate coordinator position. This half-time position is vacant.

Eliminates headquarters office services specialist position. The position is currently vacant.

Eliminates stockroom supervisor position in central office. The position is now vacant.

Eliminates a Community Corrections management position and support staff.

Eliminates one internal auditor position in the central office.

Eliminates one parole examiner position. Staff in these positions interview inmates eligible for parole and make parole recommendations to the Parole Board. With the number of parole-eligible inmates declining, a position can be eliminated.

Eliminate agency's position of Chief of Architect and Engineering in the central office. The position is currently vacant.

Eliminates a vacant program assessment specialist within the Division of Community Corrections.

Eliminates one of four regional psychologist positions and a psychologist position from the special sex-offender treatment program at Brunswick Correctional Center. The facility currently has six psychologist positions assigned to that program.

Eliminates regional environmental staff.

Eliminates positions in regional offices that provide assistance to wardens and corrections superintendents in finding ways to improve working conditions at correctional institutions and reduce staff turnover.

Eliminates five probation and parole officer positions provided by the 2008 General Assembly and not yet filled. The funding for these positions in the first year of the biennium was used as one of the items in the agency's plan to effect budget reductions required by the 2008 General Assembly.

Eliminates vacant clerical positions throughout system.

Captures savings created by increasing the number of vacant positions that the agency will delay filling.

Eliminates the financial reporting section and transfers the responsibilities of the section to the agency's central budget section.

Eliminates one counselor position in each major correctional center, except for Greensville, which is the biggest prison and which would lose three counselor positions.

Eliminates two currently vacant fiscal technician positions in the accounts receivable/accounts payable section in the central office.

Reduces funding available to provide substance abuse treatment for probation and parole offenders. Of the total amount available to probation and parole districts for this service, this reduction is equivalent to the balance that is not used each year.

Eliminates one of three sanitarian positions who are responsible for inspecting correctional facilities to ensure that standards for sanitary conditions, especially in kitchens and toilet/shower areas, are met.

Eliminates counselor positions at Indian Creek Correctional Center. The Department of Corrections (DOC) operates the facility as a Therapeutic Community (TC). DOC has a contract with a private vendor to administer the TC program. Therefore, the number of regular counselors can be reduced.

Reduces the staff of warehouses at correctional facilities.

Reverts funding provided for the planning of the proposed prison in Charlotte County. This project is being considered under the provisions of the Private Public Education and Infrastructure Act (PPEA). Although the General Assembly provided some funding for planning, the negotiations that are to result in a comprehensive agreement for consideration by the Governor are still ongoing. There will still be $1.7 million in the capital project after this reduction to enter into an interim agreement, if necessary, to keep the project on schedule.

Reduces the number of buyers for correctional institutions. Instead of having a buyer in each of the larger institutions, the Department of Corrections will establish pools of buyers in their administrative regions.

Reduces funding available for administering drug tests to offenders on probation and parole supervision. The reduction is made possible by the agency better targeting those offenders it plans to test.

When an agency implements layoffs for employees eligible for retirement, in lieu of severance, the employee is offered an enhanced retirement package. In such cases, the agency would normally pre-pay the Virginia Retirement System for the cost of the enhanced package. This savings strategy would require the Virginia Retirement System to temporarily absorb such costs incurred as the result of layoffs in the Governor's 2008-10 reduction plan and amortize the cost as part of future actuarial valuations.

Eliminates a contract with Virginia Commonwealth University to provide consulting, planning, and training services to enable the district probation and parole offices to make their transition to evidence-based practices. The agency instead has been using in-house staff.

Removes the half-percent pay practices funding granted to Executive branch agencies in the 2006-08 biennium.

Disposes of property located in Prince William County once used as a correctional field unit. The facility was closed in 1992 and the agency has no further use for the property.