Automated Offender Intake and Assessment document provides an appropriate classification, institutional placement to each offender who is committed to the Arizona Department of Corrections and program road map.

Arizona Correctional Industries (ACI) is an integral component of the overall Arizona Department of Corrections prison work program. Legislatively mandated to operate as a fiscally self-sufficient enterprise, ACI provides business and industry activities which trains and employs offenders in jobs that reflect employment opportunities found in the community.  The industries and enterprises operated by ACI provide valuable training and employment of offenders in the manufacturing of products or production of services as needed for the construction, operation, maintenance or use of any office, department, institution or agency supported by the state, its political subdivisions, or for sale to the public.  Being able to work and support your family is one of the four core building blocks for community success.

The Offender Support Services Division has responsibility in the following areas: Intake and Assessment, Offender Classification/Movement, Offender Information, Protective Segregation, Time Computation, and Public Access. Offenders received into the Arizona Department of Corrections are initially classified utilizing an objective Offender Classification System (OCS).

Consistent with community standards Health Care Services provides quality medical care and services responsive to the offender population to include: medical services, dental care, primary nursing care, and quality pharmacy care. Keeping offenders healthy is the basic platform from which the offender is launched to successfully complete basic education, workforce development, and alcohol and drug treatment sessions essential to building good citizenship and self-sufficiency. The Correctional Public Health program assists in reducing the incidence and spread of communicable diseases, making the prison system a healthy and productive environment for both staff and offenders.

Effective Counseling and Treatment Services provides treatment for offenders housed in general population, special housing units, and those offenders committed to licensed psychiatric facilities. Completing counseling and treatment programming for substance abuse, sex offenders, mental health, communicable diseases and MRDD statistically reduces relapse, revocation, and recidivism. Addiction Treatment Services provides Substance Abuse Treatment and education that produces long-term change, increases quality of life, reduces substance abuse and criminal conduct and facilitates successful reintegration into the community.

Realizing the importance of Workforce Development , we will provide basic educational services to offenders in four program areas: Functional Literacy, GED Preparation, Work-based Education, and Special Education.  Opportunities for the employment of offenders in meaningful jobs develops good working habits and reinforces work-based education which will assist offenders in eventually securing and holding family wage employment on the outside.

The presence of a spiritual environment models, promotes, and encourage offenders to develop a sense of hope and a redemptive and productive lifestyle. The Department's Volunteer program provides spiritual programming through a respected and recognized volunteer community that reinforces spiritual educational and other pro-social values and beliefs. Positive spiritual reentry mentors wraps support systems around each offender. This is a recognized core building block to long term public safety and civil and productive citizenship.

The Women's Services is responsible for directing and managing all family and offender related issues involving female offenders under the Department's supervision.  From intake and assessment, to complex based programming to re-entry, the Women's Services emphasis is on servicing better those under the Arizona Department of Corrections management. The ultimate goal of the Arizona Department of Corrections is to improve public safety.  The Women's Services unit ties together with many concurrent and interrelated efforts in the department and its partners into a cohesive  strategy to reduce recidivism and influence offenders into becoming productive citizens.

Reduced victimization and building restorative justice values in the offender population are central to living a safe, civil, and productive life. Cognitive Restructuring concepts will serve as our thinking and language for change.