Hosted by the Stepping Up initiative and the Data-Driven Justice initiative Counties across the country are building collaborative partnerships to reduce the number of people with mental illnesses in their jails. Despite the progress that counties have made, they...
The U.S. Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Assistance is seeking applications for funding for a new initiative designed to establish standards for the collection, analysis, and use of state- and local-level data in criminal justice policy and practice...
In Focus: Collecting and Analyzing Baseline Data is a new brief from the Stepping Up partners designed to help counties collect and analyze baseline data on the prevalence of people in their jails who have serious mental illnesses (SMI), specifically along the...
The U.S. Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Statistics, in partnership with the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Criminal Justice Information Services Division, is seeking applications for funding to support the efforts of selected local law enforcement...
By The Council of State Governments Justice Center Staff New Mexico’s newly established Justice Reinvestment Working Group met on Dec. 14 to work on a data-driven approach to analyze and address challenges in the state’s criminal justice system. New Mexico is...
