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The New York County District Attorney’s Office (DANY) is requesting proposals to evaluate Early Diversion Programs for Young Adults and Adults. Applicants to evaluate the Early Diversion initiative should propose a research design that facilitates an i …

Hosted by the Positive Youth Outcomes Committee of the Council of Juvenile Correctional Administrators In this webinar presenters will address how to effectively respond to the educational needs of youth with emotional disturbances and learning disabil …

Hosted by the National Institute of Corrections (NIC) Learning Center This webinar will help agencies, trainers, curriculum designers, learning and performance professionals, leaders, and others involved in the corrections training profession from comm …

The Laura and John Arnold Foundation aims to address the nation’s most pressing and persistent challenges using evidence-based, multidisciplinary approaches. The goal of this RFP is to help spur community corrections research and policy innovations tha …

This interactive publication from The Pew Charitable Trusts shows a state-by-state breakdown for probation violations and status offenses, such a truancy and running away. The publication uses data for the 50 states on the confinement of juveniles in e …

The National Institute of Justice (NIJ) What Works in Reentry seminar will focus on the role and importance of institutional and community corrections, and rehabilitative and reentry services in crime prevention and public safety efforts. The seminar w …

Hosted by the National Reentry Resource Center, with funding support from the U.S. Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Assistance Date: Wednesday, Oct. 31 Time: 1–2 p.m. ET Collateral consequences of conviction are the legal and regulatory restri …

The Annie E. Casey Foundation is seeking emerging youth justice leaders from around the country to apply for the 2019–21 Juvenile Justice Youth Advisory Council. Members will support and contribute to a national juvenile justice reform movement, and ca …

By CSG Justice Center Staff Secretaries of Pennsylvania’s Department of Health, Department of Corrections, and others launched a first-of-its-kind resource center on Oct. 15 in Philadelphia focused on helping counties reduce the number of people with m …

By Sheridan Watson, CSG Justice Center Staff Hawaii Lt. Gov. Doug Chin meets with participants at “The Hawaii Experience: Improving Restitution Management, Helping Victims Recover” training. Victims frequently sustain financial losses as a result of th …

By CSG Justice Center Illinois and Montana are the latest in a number of states to convene state forums on public safety to continue the conversations begun at the 50-State Summit on Public Safety that took place in November 2017 in Washington, DC. The …

In an effort to address ways in which law enforcement can successfully combat violent crime, the Major Cities Chiefs Association and the U.S. Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) have released the Violent Crime Reduction Operation …

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The Center for Juvenile Justice Reform at Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy, in partnership with the Council of Juvenile Correctional Administrators, is now accepting applications for sites to participate in its Youth in Custody P …

The New York Times Magazine By Reginald Dwayne Betts One afternoon in the fall of 2016, I sat in a windowless visiting room at the Manson Youth Institution in Cheshire, Conn. A recent graduate of Yale Law School, I was a certified legal intern on a fel …

The CSG Justice Center has released an updated version of the 50-State Report on Public Safety that includes 2017 crime and arrest data. The report is a web-based resource that combines extensive data analyses, case studies and recommended strategies f …

 Four Key Measures Webinar Series Hosted by the National Association of Counties, with support from The Council of State Governments Justice Center and the American Psychiatric Association Foundation Date: Thursday, Oct. 25 Time: 2–3:15 p.m. ET The Ste …

AP By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar Low-income people in states that haven’t expanded Medicaid are much more likely to forgo needed medical care than the poor in other states, according to a government report released Monday amid election debates from Georgi …

NPR By Joseph Shapiro, Jessica Pupovac, and Kari Lydersen When Monica Cosby, Tyteanna Williams and Celia Colon talk about the years they spent as inmates at women’s prisons in Illinois, their stories often turn to the times they would be discipli …

Dayton Daily News By Ed Richter A six-month-old program aimed at getting help for people addicted to opioids is seeing positive results , according to leaders of the effort. The city’s heroin quick response team has contacted 65 people who have had an …