Category: Community Corrections Research & News

Assessing risk and needs: What is the LSI-R?

Assessing risk and needs: What is the LSI-R?

In a majority of our reentry programs, GEO Reentry Services uses the LSI-R to assess participants’ criminogenic needs and recidivism risks. Treatment and intervention are then based on offenders’ LSI-R

AB 109 turns two: What’s next?

California ForwardWith the upcoming two-year anniversary of AB 109, California Forward’s Partnership for Community Excellence is assessing how to best continue implementation of the bill. The PCE wants to promote

GPS tracking devices help probation monitor offenders

Central Coast News  With AB 109 prison realignment in California, county probation departments are exploring alternatives to incarceration. In Santa Barbara County, the probation department is utilizing these GPS tracking

SLO County to invest in alternative programs

Santa Maria Times San Luis Obispo County officials reported positive results nearly two years into the state-mandated program to shift low-level prisoners to county jails. The county formed a committee

Report: Prison population reductions insufficient

San Francisco ChronicleSACRAMENTO — Gov. Jerry Brown’s plan to keep tens of thousands of low-level offenders in county jails instead of state prisons won’t reduce the inmate population enough to fully comply with