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A year after the overhaul of California’s criminal justice system, many people are assessing its effectiveness. Reports are finding that offenders who qualify for rehab services under the realignment policy

To cope with high recidivism and institutional overcrowding, many states and counties are looking for smart alternatives. Day reporting is one such alternative. With day reporting, parolees or probationers are

A recent study by the Vera Institute of Justice and the Pew Center on the States’ Public Safety Performance Project examined changes in population count and spending for both prisons

The U.S. Department of Labor held a summit recently in Washington D.C. on reentry and employment of formerly incarcerated individuals. The summit featured three panel discussions, which included the benefits

Calaveras Enterprise Calaveras County selected GEO Reentry to implement and run its day reporting center and related programs. The day reporting center will be built to help manage offenders coming

For individuals caught in a cycle of substance abuse and criminality, good nutrition and a balanced diet are low on the priority list. Recognizing the importance to educate its clients

The Council of State Governments Justice Center’s National Reentry Resource Center released a policy brief that found  70 percent of all states currently have steady or declining recidivism rates. According

In 2011, the California state legislature passed Assembly Bill (AB) 109, commonly referred to as “Realignment.”  Realignment was designed to make fundamental changes to the California prison system by shifting

Earlier this summer, in an effort to reduce costs and help curb chronic recidivism, BI Incorporated opened a day reporting program in Luzerne County, Penn. The Luzerne County Day Reporting

Joan Petersilia, Ph.D., has spent more than 25 years studying the performance of U.S. criminal justice agencies and has been instrumental in affecting sentencing and corrections reform in California.  She

Several years ago, the 264-bed Napa County jail exceeded capacity and jail planners were recommending significant expansion to cure the problem. Rather than go all in on jail expansion, the

A critical element of evidence-based practices is measurement. As the influential Washington State Institute for Public Policy states, “We systematically assess evidence on what works and what does not to

Judge Richard Walsh, who has held a post in the Court of Common Pleas that serves Franklin and Fulton counties for 15 years, won the Judge Linda K. Ludgate Award

The National Reentry Resource Center recently publicized the What Works in Reentry Clearinghouse at the third annual Second Chance Act Training conference in Washington, D.C. The Clearinghouse, which is hosted

It has not yet been a full year since the 2011 Public Safety Realignment law, AB 109, went into effect and yet the changes to the Tulare County jail system

The National Reentry Resource Center, an arm of the Council on State Governments that provides education, training, and technical assistance to states, tribes, territories, local governments, service providers, non-profit organizations,

The Washington State Institute for Public Policy was formed in the early 1980s to conduct non-partisan research at the state legislature’s direction. Under the leadership of Steven Aos, the institute

The U.S. Department of Justice recently released a study that analyzed data collected over a four-year period from 11 adult and four juvenile reentry programs around the country.  Researches set

BI Incorporated and Cambria County hosted an open house at the new Day Reporting Center (DRC) in Ebensburg, PA on May 11. The innovative program opens on May 21 and

South Dakota’s prison population hit record highs in recent months, and state officials described stepped-up efforts to reduce the number of people sentenced to prison and cut the number of