Justice System Partners
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We work to improve the safety and quality of life for offenders and communities through evidence-based strategies, systems, and data-based decisions and practices.
Justice System Partners
7M ago
The opioid epidemic continues to ravage communities, transcending race, gender, disability, socioeconomic status, and geographic location. In 2022, on average, 218 people died every day from an opioid-involved overdose for a year-end total of 79,770 deaths. In Pennsylvania specifically, …
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Justice System Partners
7M ago
The opioid epidemic continues to ravage communities, transcending race, gender, disability, socioeconomic status, and geographic location. In 2022, on average, 218 people died every day from an opioid-involved overdose for a year-end total of 79,770 deaths. In Pennsylvania specifically, …
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Justice System Partners
8M ago
In March 2020, criminal legal agencies across the country were concerned with how the Coronavirus (COVID-19) would disproportionately impact the health of individuals in jail. Many counties implemented emergency policies to reduce their jail populations to protect the health of …
The post Understanding the Impacts of COVID-19 on Jail Populations and Community Safety in Multnomah County, Oregon appeared first on Justice System Partners ..read more
Justice System Partners
9M ago
Recently, New York City Police Commissioner Keechant Sewell reported that nearly a third of the 6,000 arrests and rearrests for shoplifting in the city last year involved the same 327 people. The Commissioner went on to say victims concentrated …
The post Getting to the Root of Retail Theft: Building a National Model for Retail Theft Diversion with the Association of Prosecuting Attorneys appeared first on Justice System Partners ..read more
Justice System Partners
11M ago
THE NEED FOR SOMETHING OTHER THAN ARRESTResearchers and practitioners often call jails in the United States “the new asylums” for the rising number of individuals they confine with behavioral health needs and substance use disorders. Some calculations estimate that …
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Justice System Partners
1y ago
Criminal legal system agencies are reckoning with how they have contributed to racial and ethnic disparities and upheld structural racism – or the formal and informal policies and practices that systematically create preferences for some groups over others. In response, …
The post Striving for Equal Opportunities and Outcomes in the Community: Dr. Cherrell Green’s Will and Advocacy for Racial Justice and Equity appeared first on Justice System Partners ..read more
Justice System Partners
1y ago
The first installment in a four-part series. JSP is working alongside Cook County, IL to implement the Pretrial Fairness Act (PFA). This comprehensive legislation eliminates money bond, reduces pretrial incarceration, and increases law enforcement use of citations that do …
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Justice System Partners
1y ago
Written by Shannon Magnuson, PhD and Amy Dezember, PhD.
This blog is reposted from the Safety and Justice Challenge website, where it first appeared here.
You can hear more from our partners at Pima County, one of the sites …
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Justice System Partners
2y ago
JSP has a new way of conceptualizing the work we do with jurisdictions across the country to transform criminal legal systems. In our four-step approach, JSP creates an environment that values diverse perspectives in problem-solving; boldly explores and analyzes …
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Justice System Partners
2y ago
The last year and a half has brought both challenges and opportunities to our field and our organization. For JSP, it has meant rethinking our approach to our services and our process. These considerations ultimately led us on a journey …
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