criminal justice system

This year, AEquitas released a guide for preventing and responding to violent crime by enhancing prosecutors’ ability to build safer communities through increased collaboration with community leaders. As key members of the criminal justice system, prosecutors can play an important role in uniting community leaders to create and implement policies, practices, and initiatives for sustainability and the reduction of violence.

The Vera Institute of Justice has recently developed a guide to analyzing jail data to better inform impactful policy creation and social change. The guide provides strategies for obtaining quantitative data on jail populations from local government and other sources, definitions of data points generally collected about jail populations, best-practices for prepping data sets for most effective analysis, and suggestions for different types of analysis that could be performed with that data.

Join the Bureau of Justice Assistance’s Comprehensive Opioid, Stimulant, and Substance Abuse Program for their upcoming “Implementing Telehealth in Jails” webinar on August 13, 2020 at 2:00 p.m. ET. This webinar will address the fundamentals of telehealth and the experience of implementing it in correctional facilities to better manage physical health, mental health, and substance use treatment.

Join The Council of State Governments Justice Center for their upcoming “How to Respond Effectively to People with Intellectual/Developmental Disabilities (I/DD) in the Criminal Justice System” webinar on July 30, 2020 at 2:00 p.m. ET. During this webinar, attendees will discuss the prevalence of people with I/DD in the criminal justice system and how the Pathways to Justice model can be used to better understand how they become involved in the criminal justice system.

Webinar: “How to Respond Effectively to People with Intellectual/Developmental Disabilities in the Criminal Justice System”

People with intellectual/developmental disabilities (I/DD) are an often overlooked population in the criminal justice system because of a lack of identification and understanding and service gaps that prevent providers’ abilities to address their needs. At the same time, they are also often victimized by people without I/DD, which can sometimes lead to sustained involvement with the criminal justice system.