by Kristen Nielsen | Jul 8, 2019 | Criminal Justice
By Dr. Brian Lovins A recent report, “Confined and Costly, How Supervision Violations are Filling Prisons and Burdening Budgets”, compiled by Council of State Governments (CSG) describes each state’s prison population as it relates to probation and parole violations....
by Kristen Nielsen | Jun 4, 2019 | Criminal Justice
By Dr. Brian Lovins Community corrections is at a crossroads. Over the past 20 years, every aspect of our criminal justice system has been challenged. The “get tough” era of the mid 1980s has led us down a path to …
by Kristen Nielsen | Oct 29, 2018 | Criminal Justice
By JSP Team Justice System Partners (JSP) released a case study of the Multnomah County Circuit Court’s (Portland, Oregon) “Perceptions of Justice” judicial listening sessions, which are considered to be promising examples of judicial engagement with the community....
by Kristen Nielsen | Oct 8, 2018 | Criminal Justice
By JSP Team The story is too familiar across the nation: A criminal defendant struggling with mental illness spends weeks or even months in jail, his condition deteriorating as he waits for a psychological evaluation to determine whether he is …
by Kate Florio | Oct 23, 2017 | Criminal Justice
Part Two of a Two-Part Series By Zach Dal Pra The first of this two-part series was posted on August 1st and examined money- and charge-based bail systems. In this follow-up blog, we look at the analyses jurisdictions should...
by Kate Florio | Oct 11, 2017 | Criminal Justice, JSP
By JSP Team Jurisdictions struggling with jail overcrowding have a new tool available to them: the Projection and Strategy Model-Jail (PSM-Jail), a dynamic, web-based application that uses research-based methods to (1) forecast future jail populations, (2) identify...
