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 | Sep 6, 2017 | Criminal Justice
By JSP Team Lore Joplin and Billie Grobe will be presenting at the annual conference of the National Association of Pretrial Services Agencies in Pittsburgh on Monday, September 11. Their workshop, “Guiding Pretrial Release Decisions Using the Public Safety...
