Eliza Bajakian

This document serves as a progress report for the Rhode Island Department of Corrections' Strategic Plan, reviewing achievements from 2025 and outlining future priorities for 2026 and beyond. The plan focuses on strengthening the workforce, modernizing operations, and expanding rehabilitative opportunities through key initiatives such as recruitment, retention, employee health and wellness, improving justice-involved lives, technology updates, and budget management. The ultimate vision is to ensure public safety, support successful reentry, and strengthen communities through continuous improvement, accountability, and innovation.

The Rhode Island Department of Corrections' Strategic Plan 2025-2029 is a comprehensive roadmap guiding the department's growth towards its mission, values, and ambitions. It outlines six overarching goals: Talent Development, Management, and Retention; Keep People Safe; Communication; Improve Justice-Involved Lives; Physical Plant and Infrastructure Modernization; and Increase Effectiveness and Efficiency. The plan emphasizes maintaining a safe and secure correctional system, prioritizing staff and incarcerated individual well-being, promoting respectful work environments, using data-driven practices, and offering programs to facilitate successful reintegration into the community and reduce recidivism, ultimately aiming to foster a premier correctional organization.

The strategic plan for the Rhode Island Department of Corrections (RIDOC) focuses on talent development, staff safety, communication, improving justice-involved lives, physical plant modernization, and increasing effectiveness and efficiency. Key priorities include strengthening recruitment and retention, enhancing staff training and well-being, improving physical and technological security, fostering respectful contract negotiations, and creating opportunities for justice-involved individuals to adopt prosocial values and behaviors. The plan also aims to reduce recidivism, increase workforce transition readiness, enhance quality assurance, improve data transparency, and optimize budget management to achieve organizational excellence.

The strategic plan for Workforce Solutions Providence/Cranston focuses on aligning core services to meet job seekers' and employers' needs, fostering relationships with community-based agencies, and implementing programs that result in job placement. It prioritizes demand-driven training, career pathways, and support services for individuals with barriers to employment. The plan also emphasizes coordination with state and local partners, leveraging resources, and using data to inform policy decisions and measure performance.