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The first presentation to the New Mexico Justice Reinvestment Working Group summarizes findings related to crime and victimization, behavioral health challenges that pertain to people in New Mexico’s criminal justice system, and probation policies and …

By The Council of State Governments Justice Center Staff On December 7, Missouri became the fifteenth and final state this year to host a state forum on public safety and continue the discussions begun at the 50-State Summit on Public Safety in Novembe …

Hosted by The Council of State Governments Justice Center with funding support from the U.S. Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Assistance [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dCc_2oD8zg?showinfo=0] Download a PDF of the presentation. Featu …

Office of U.S. Senator Rob Portman U.S. Senators Rob Portman (R-OH) and Patrick Leahy (D-VT) announced that their bipartisan Second Chance Reauthorization Act, has been incorporated into the First Step Act, bipartisan legislation to reform America’s cr …

By The Council of State Governments Justice Center Staff This is the sixth in a series of posts on aspects of successful reentry. Each post will include curated resources related to the featured reentry topic. A large proportion of people in the crimin …

Across the country, revocations from community supervision drive between one and three of every four admissions to state prisons. Despite the financial and human cost, however, statewide supervision agencies struggle to adopt comprehensive, sustainable …

News 5 Cleveland By Homa Bash Eye-opening new data from a local think tank shows it is more difficult to be black than white in Cleveland and in Cuyahoga County. The research from the Center for Community Solutions finds that there is no question that …

The Messenger By Joe Sutter To help those with a mental health challenge takes many experts from many different specialties. Providers from the emergency room, the mental health clinic, and county mental health organizers get to meet face to face with …

KSMU  By Janet Saidi State directors and staff in the fields of public safety, mental health, social services, and corrections are rolling out implementations of the state Justice Reinvestment Initiative. It aims to turn around Missouri’s rising incarc …

Idaho Press By Emily Lowe To Idaho Department of Correction Reentry Program Manager, a newly released prisoner transitioning back into society must have three aspects met in order to be successful: social support, a safe place to live and meaningful em …

After using a Justice Reinvestment approach, Rhode Island passed legislation that will modernize probation and parole policies and practices, create more opportunities for community-based treatment for people with substance addictions and mental illnes …

Hosted by The Council of State Governments Justice Center with funding support from the U.S. Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Assistance Date: Thursday, Dec. 13 Time: 2–3:30 p.m. ET This webinar will cover system-level strategies to maximize o …

This overview outlines several criminal justice challenges in New Mexico, including high crime rates and overdose death rates, a growing prison population, and an increase in the reincarceration rate, and provides a summary of the stages of the Justice …

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette By Stephen Simpson Luther Miller, a student at Shorter College in North Little Rock, talked to his fellow general psychology classmates on Wednesday about self-defense mechanisms and the theories of Sigmund Freud as part of th …

Hosted by the National Sheriffs’ Association  This webinar will discuss how the nation’s jails are experiencing a crisis in managing and treating people with mental illnesses. Topics covered will include legal requirements related to the Duty to Protec …

This training curriculum from the University of South Carolina College of Social Work was designed to offer essential, actionable information about mental health and mental illness to correctional officers and other safety-related correctional staff. I …

After using a Justice Reinvestment approach, Massachusetts passed legislation that focuses on incentivizing good behavior, diverting people from incarceration to treatment and programming, and strengthening community supervision, among other measures. …

People who are leaving incarceration face a significantly higher risk of relapse, overdose, and overdose-related death than people in the general public. Because of these odds, reentry is a critical time to provide rapid access to pre- and post-release …

Hosted by the Safety and Justice Challenge Date: Monday, Dec. 10 Time: 3–4:30 p.m. ET Across the country, leaders from various systems and disciplines are talking about individuals who are frequently coming through their system, with recurrent admissio …

MPR News By Dan Gunderson When Clay County officials started planning to replace its jail, the oldest in the state, they gathered around a table to start building a wish list for the new jail’s design. “One of the first things we talked abo …