Offender Services is comprised of three separate functions for the benefit of all offenders. The major functions, responsibilities and tasks are:
Offender Banking
- Processes all deposit receipts for offenders
- Posts department charges (indigent offenders at the time of posting)
- Responds to offender inquiries
- Processes offender transaction requests for offender charges
- Posts offender payroll
- Posts monies received from outside sources (lockbox, pensions, etc.) to offender accounts
- Administers Restitution/Transitional Center's fiscal procedures with regard to the offender account
- Processes stipends for the Restitution/Transitional Center offenders
- Posts charges for medical, dental, and prosthetic co-pays
- Posts disciplinary sanctions and recover amounts owed to the Department by offenders
- Processes offender monies upon release
- Daily and monthly reconciliation of all postings to offender accounts
- Provides monthly account statements to all offenders
- Processes store purchase debits and credits for all offender accounts
- Administers Offender Telephone System, Vending and burial contracts
- Processes all payables for offender accounts
- Administers the collection of child support
- Administers the collection of fines, fees and assessments from the courts per
the judgments of conviction
- Administers the collection of victim specific restitution per the judgment of
conviction
- Provides the courts with offender account information for financial
certificates
- Sends abandoned property (offender account monies) to State of Nevada Abandoned
Property
- Debt Collection (department charges owed by released offenders)
Offender Stores and Coffee Shops
- Provides an opportunity for offenders to purchase personal property to supplement State supplied products
- Store profits generated are transferred to Offender Welfare Fund to provide programs for the benefit of all offenders
- Administers purchasing procedures for canteen/coffee shop operation
- Revenues and expenditures controlled
- Profitability report for administrative use
- Provide personal photographs for offenders
Offender Welfare Fund
- Supports offender Law Libraries statewide
- Provides for the benefit of all offenders
- Purchases exercise and recreation supplies
- Provides satellite television reception/repair
- Funding for Education Coordinator, GED and testing
- Provides various transfers to State budgets to repay costs incurred by indigent offenders