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
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AB 109 helps counties expand rehabilitation programs
PublicCEO With AB 109’s second birthday, many are examining how counties across California have implemented the legislation. Many counties used AB 109 public safety realignment as an opportunity to launch
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
Pros and cons of what AB 109 means to public-private partnerships
Correctional News Signed by California Governor Jerry Brown less than a year ago in April 2011, assembly bill (AB) 109, the realignment process that is shifting low-level, nonviolent offenders from
Latessa talk highlights what does and doesn’t work in corrections
BI Incorporated’s programs are cognitive behavioral treatment programs operating under evidence-based principles. These programs include elements of a “What Works” system, including leadership models competent in data driven services; evidence-based
If realignment is an opportunity, let’s not waste it building costly jail beds
California Progress Report Emily Harris of Californians United for a Responsible Budget (CURB) writes in this editorial that California counties should direct more of AB 109’s state funding toward community
Securing citizen safety while managing more offenders
Lake County Record Bee The Community Corrections Partnership of Lake County continues to develop its realignment plan. Part of that plan involves working with GEO Reentry to develop a day reporting
Prisoner realignment plan: Counties must find alternatives to lockup
Sacramento Bee: Viewpoints If properly implemented, realignment will reverse decades of over-reliance upon incarceration, improve public safety and save taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars each year. Not nearly enough
The ACLU’s 12-step plan to end California’s addiction to incarceration
American Civil Liberties Union’s Blog of Rights The ACLU of California sent a 12-step plan to each county to help break the state’s addiction to incarceration. The 12 steps are
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
Webcast features offender reentry discussion by federal leaders
In June, the U.S. Department of Labor hosted a discussion on workforce development and employment strategies for people with criminal records. Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis, Attorney General Eric Holder,