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.
It’s here! COMPAS-R Core: Transparent RNA Built Your Way
COMPAS-R Core, a risk and needs assessment designed specifically for today’s practitioners. It has 30% fewer questions, is highly configurable, and was developed using research and data from agencies like yours.
EBP: Are you REALLY doing it right?
In our field, the letters EBP are used far more than the words they represent: evidence-based practice. Let’s dig into EBP. What does it really mean, and how do you know if you’re doing it?
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.
Top 3 Case Planning Mistakes Your Team Could Be Making
As the complexity of your job grows, so does the potential for your team to make some common case planning mistakes. Here are the Top 3 challenges we see among supervision professionals today.
Needs vs. Risks: It’s a Balancing Act
Rather than thinking about risk management and corrective intervention as competing ideologies, it’s time to start thinking about them as different approaches that work together to enhance success.
Overcrowding: Are we talking about the right things?
All justice reforms have to be a collaborative effort. When states approach overcrowding not just from the supervision side, but also from the legislative side, they see very positive results.
Risk Scores: The Not-So-Secret Recipe
If it seems like the COMPAS risk assessment uses a healthy dose of mystery and secret sauce to arrive at risk scores, let’s talk.
The Trouble with Validation
Validation. You’ve heard about it over the years. You know it’s a best practice. But can you explain it to your agency’s stakeholders?