| North Dakota Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation | |
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| Abbreviation | DOCR |
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| Employees | 700 |
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| Operations jurisdiction | North Dakota, USA |
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| Map of North Dakota Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation's jurisdiction | |
| Size | 70,762 square miles (183,270 km2) |
| Population | 765,309 (July 1, 2020 Estimate) |
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| Headquarters | Bismarck, North Dakota |
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TheNorth Dakota Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (DOCR) provides prison services for thestate ofNorth Dakota. Its Division of Field Services supervises parolees through 14 field offices.[1] DOCR also has a Division of Juvenile Services that oversees the supervision and case management of delinquent youth of the state.[2] The agency has its headquarters inBismarck.[3]
The director of the North Dakota Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation isDave Krabbenhoft.
The department has four different adultprisons inNorth Dakota Below:
| Name | Inmate Capacity |
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| James River Correctional Center -Jamestown | (420) |
| Missouri River Correctional Center -Bismarck | (151) |
| North Dakota State Penitentiary-Bismarck | (815) |
| Dakota Women's Correctional and Rehabilitation Center -New England | (126) |
The Division of Juvenile Services (DJS) provides juvenile correctional services operating the North Dakota Youth Correctional Center and maintains eight regional community offices.[5] The North Dakota Youth Correctional Center is located partially inMandan and partially inunincorporatedMorton County.[6][7][8]
The housing units include:
Brown Cottage - 16-bed structure housing female juveniles for Detention, Assessment and Treatment.
Hickory Cottage - 35-bed structure housing male treatment status juveniles. A Mental Health Specialist, a Nurse Practitioner, a dentist office, nurse's offices, and a medical examination room are located on the lower level of Hickory Cottage. An Intensive Outpatient Drug and Alcohol Treatment Program is also located on the lower level of this cottage.
Pine Cottage - 25-bed structure housing male juveniles. Cottage staff provide a variety of programs including Assessment, Detention, Time Out, and Special Management. Additionally, this cottage houses high risk or high maintenance male juveniles. It also serves as the intake cottage for all new male admissions.[9]
Since its establishment, two officers from the North Dakota Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation have died in the line of duty.[10]
In 2015, several North Dakota legislators, judges and prison officials flew toNorway and visitedHalden Prison. Halden is often called the "most humane prison in the world." The visit aimed to explore ways to reform North Dakota's state prisons to lowerrecidivism rates and decrease the number of fights in their prisons. North Dakota's DOC has since established softball fields and encouraged vocational training for prisoners atNorth Dakota State Penitentiary. Furthermore, the duration of solitary confinement has been reduced, now capped at a few days rather than a maximum time of a year[11]
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| Corrections byFederal district | Felons:Federal Bureau of Prisons, Misdemeanants:District of Columbia (incarcerated long-term felons until year 2001) |
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