Actually, it's everything you just said. It starts right during the court process, as they fall through the court process and into the institutions. I can speak only personally, but from my experience in working with elders in the institutions and in the communities, they are an absolutely integral part of it.
They right now are required to do a lot of paperwork, which they weren't originally intended to do. That's not their role. Their role is to work with the women, with the offenders in the institution and community. If you spoke personally to some of the elders working in the institutions, you would probably hear from them that they really are tied to a lot of paperwork, and it prevents them from doing as much work as they would like to do with the women.