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It’s About Time: Aging Prisoners, Increasing Costs, and Geriatric Release
      This report, “based upon a statutory review of geriatric release provisions...offers recommendations for responding to the disparities between geri
    Justice Reinvestment in Hawaii: Analyses & Policy Options to Reduce Spending on Corrections & Reinvest in Strategies to Increase Public Safety
      "This report summarizes the CSG Justice Center’s findings and describes the data-driven policy framework that was provided to state policymakers an
    Justice Reinvestment in North Carolina: Three Years Later
      "Three years after North Carolina enacted justice reinvestment legislation, this report reviews the policies the state enacted and their impact on
    Justice Reinvestment in Kansas: Analyses & Policy Options to Reduce Spending on Corrections & Reinvest in Strategies to Increase Public Safety
      Kansas policymakers "sought to employ a data-driven “justice reinvestment” approach to develop a statewide policy framework that would reduce spend
    Justice Reinvestment in West Virginia: Analyses & Policy Options to Reduce Spending on Corrections & Reinvest in Strategies to Increase Public Safety
      Efforts in West Virginia "to employ a data-driven "justice reinvestment" approach to develop a statewide policy framework that would reduce spendin
    Alabama's Justice Reinvestment Approach
      "Faced with the most crowded prison system in the nation and overwhelmed probation and parole systems, state leaders in Alabama pursued justice rei
    Nebraska's Justice Reinvestment Approach: Reduce Prison Overcrowding and Expanding Probation and Parole Supervision
      "Faced with a prison system at 159 percent of capacity and expected to grow to 170 percent of capacity by FY2020, state leaders in Nebraska pursued
    Justice Reinvestment in Kansas: Strengthening Probation Supervision and Promoting Successful Reentry
      This report describes efforts of Kansas to implement justice reinvestment-"a data-driven approach designed to reduce corrections spending and reinv
    Using Risk and Needs Assessment Information at Sentencing: Observations from Ten Jurisdictions
      "RNA [risk and needs assessment] instruments are actuarial tools designed to inform community corrections-related decisions regarding risk manageme Return to top

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