Top 5 Underutilized Tools for Helping Mentally Ill Inmates
The cost of mental health care continues to rise. It’s time to assess the tools you already have and find ways to better serve your inmates and your community.
The Most Under-Utilized Tool in Pretrial
Issuing citations instead of arrests is one of the most under-utilized tools in achieving better pretrial outcomes. So why aren’t more supervision agencies talking to their law enforcement partners about their citation usage?
Our Top 4 Go-To Resources for Pretrial
We’ve compiled a list of our favorite go-to resources for pretrial, no matter where you’re located or how far along you are in your pretrial reboot.
Feet hit pavement. Now what?
Over the past three decades, we’ve seen hundreds of different takes on discharge/release/reentry planning, and we’ve learned that success really comes down to a few key factors.
Are you protecting your most vulnerable inmates?
We can use assessment tools not only to appropriately place inmates with mental illnesses, but also those around them.
Do Risk Assessments Have a Place in Pretrial?
Making the right choices during pretrial is critical for community safety and depends entirely on what we know about the justice-involved individual.
equivant Presents: AI and Human Decision Making
Artificial intelligence is everywhere: our phones, our cars, even our doctor’s offices. But does it belong in criminal justice? Hear from Dr. Tim Brennan, Northpointe co-founder and expert criminologist, with a quick refresher on the decision making process and how AI is already revolutionizing evidence-based practice and improving outcomes.
Are Validated Assessments Worth the Hype?
Justice professionals make life-altering decisions every day, and the consequences of these decisions ripple throughout our communities. Sound decision making is critical to ensuring public safety and a just system, and it begins with having accurate information.
Why Measure Risk?
With limited time and resources, effective supervision becomes a balancing act. Who needs what resources? Who is most likely to reoffend? Which groups should be separated?
Response to ProPublica: Demonstrating accuracy equity and predictive parity
The website ProPublica recently published a story that focused on the scientific validity of COMPAS, raising questions about racial bias. As a result of the article and the subsequent national attention that it garnered, Northpointe launched an in-depth analysis of the data samples used by ProPublica.