Pretrial

The National Judicial College provides scholarships to enable judges and other court service professionals to attend judicial education courses at NJC. We announce the availability of scholarships to the chief justice of every state, to the state court administrators, to the state judicial educators, and directly to the judges. The judges apply using a scholarship application form and we review their application based upon need, geographic diversity, educational record and eligibility for the course. We require scholarship recipients to attend all sessions and to provide an evaluation.

Monthly calls with grantee agency and research partners to inform BJA of ongoing progress and assist sites with reporting to BJA.

Training for practitioners working in drug courts and other problem solving courts.

Training for practitioners working on Drug Courts and other problem solving courts.

Training for practitioners working in drug courts and other problem solving courts.

Training for practitioners working in drug courts and other problem solving courts.

Training for practitioners working in drug courts and others problem solving courts.

Training for practitioners working in drug courts and other problem solving courts.

Training for practitioners working in drug courts and other problem solving courts.

County commissioners control funding to local justice systems and they should use data to shape their funding decisions. Commissioners were encouraged to approach their local judges, prosecutors, sheriff, and other stakeholders to discuss important issues, such as: 1) use of an empirically based pretrial risk assessment to guide the court’s decision to release or detain newly arrested defendants before trial, 2)