Corrections/Jails

BJA will identify a provider to facilitate JRI peer-to-peer technical assistance events. Similar events were held in February 2015 to share ideas, resources, and tools from sites involved in JRI efforts. This TA will expand those events to more sites involved in JRI activity.

BJA would like to make a training video specifically on RSAT MAT programming. This video will not focus on just one county RSAT program, but include RSAT MAT programs operating in state prisons and local jails as well as the federal prisons for both men and women. Currently, AHP have identified prison MAT programs we would feature in Missouri as well as Massachusetts as well as a dozen county jail MAT programs across New England.

On a nationwide basis, Pretrial Justice Reform efforts have gained momentum. The Commonwealth of Kentucky implemented Pretrial Services statewide in 1976. Since the inception of Pretrial Services there has never been a formal cost benefit analysis conducted to demonstrate the effective and efficient use of funding and resources . Kentucky Pretrial Services is housed in the judicial branch of government, which over the past three budget cycles has been grossly underfunded, experienced lay-offs, furloughs and frozen positions.

The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, heretofore referred to as LASD, is requesting the Blue Courage two-day training program to benefit professional supervisors/managers.

I would like my staff of 50 Instructors trained in the Blue Courage program.

The Oregon CJC is seeking training and technical assistance from a multi-disciplinary team to perform 3 tasks: 1) Develop an implementation plan for Lane and Klamath Counties; 2) advise on performance and outcome measures for counties implementing the Marion County program, 3) work with CJC to document the implementation process and prepare resources for other counties to replicate the process.

The Idaho Sheriffs' Association (ISA) is seeking leadership training for Sheriffs. Sheriffs are in need of tools to assist with employee subjects such as, but not limited to: management, retention, motivation, evaluations, discipline, and dismissal.

Delaware would like assistance developing a structured devision making aid to assist magistrate judges in translating pretrial risk assessment results with release decision/placements

Ohio, as part of the Justice Reinvestment Initiative, wants to create an automated central repository for probation information to assist in the data-driven decisionmaking process at the local and state levels.

Following a conference in April in which the Attorney General called heroin abuse a nationwide epidemic, PERF has proposed a Heroin Northeast Consortium Project which would develop a coordinated and comprehensive response to the problem.