This case study examines how Campbell County, a rural community in Tennessee, designed and launched the Women In Need Diversion (WIND) program to address the particular needs of women in jail
2018.10.11_Alternatives-for-Incarcerated-Women_finalized.pdf
Deborah Koetzle, associate professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, and the co-author of What Works (and Doesn't) in Reducing Recidivism, to discuss therapy as an alternative to incarceration. A major focus of the Center for Court Innovation's (CCI) work is designing "alternatives to incarceration", programs that prosecutors and judges can make use of instead of jail or prison. Treatment or therapy is one of those alternatives you hear a lot about-using the moment when someone is caught up in the justice system to try and solve some of the problems that may have gotten them there
Cities can improve outcomes for young adults with substance abuse issues by combining the efforts to law enforcement and service providers to use community-based alternatives to incarceration. Read this paper to learn more. #alternatives #Diversion
City Strategies to Support Alternatives to Arrest for People with Substance Abuse Treatment Needs -.pdf
Two significant issues that have faced the criminal justice system over the past 30 years have been the movement toward mass incarceration and the resulting disproportionate impact of that movement on racial, ethnic and economic minorities. Much of the attention in regards to those issues has been focused on law enforcement policies and sentencing practices and o"ender reentry. Very little attention has been paid to what happens between the time that law enforcement makes an arrest and the time the person is sentenced. But mass incarceration and its impact on minorities is exacerbated every time a defendant who could have been safely released on citation is instead taken to the jail, every time a defendant has to standin court at first appearance without an attorney, every time a defendant’s access to cash determines whether he or she goes home to await trial or spends months in jail. The cash-based bail process plays a large role in mass incarceration, but there is an alternative to that process that will make pretrial release safe, fair and e"ective, and do so in a way that is rational and transparent
Rational and Transparent Bail Decision Making - Pretrial Justice Institute 2012.pdf
The County of Santa Clara shared the modalities utilized in its campaign to inform the public of free alternatives to commercial bail as well as initial outcomes measured by the increase in “own recognizance” releases
County of Santa Clara_Adverstising Free Alternatives to Bail.pdf
They are also interested in learning more about strategies to effectively integrate peer staff in programs. This webinar highlights strategies to successfully integrate peer staff in the criminal justice system as well as the recovery support services that are most effective in reducing recidivism
But in recent years, religious leaders and the business community, along with advocates for racial justice, have come together to take steps toward reforming the criminal justice system
This document is a brochure for the Mission Street Sobering Center in San Jose California. #substanceabuse #alternatives
SCC Sobering Center.pdf
The report details recommendations, tools, best practices, and examples of successful programs so that state courts can serve as effective partners in the management and eventual end to the addiction crisis
Sobering centers operate as an alternative to hospitals and jails in many communities across the country as a safe place where an acutely intoxicated person can be observed until he or she becomes sober. No national data on this practice exist. We aim to create a preliminary database of sobering centers and describe national practices of these sobering centers
2016_SoberingCtrsinUS_Otis-Shannon.pdf
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