Pew Policy Framework to Strengthen Community Corrections
Pew Charitable Trusts’ Center on the States has contracted with CJI to further their work with states interested in adopting sentencing and corrections reform measures consistent with the project’s goals, including the Pew Policy Framework to Strengthen Community Corrections. CJI will partner with Pew’s Public Safety Performance Project (PSPP) to help advance in several states the project’s goal of fiscally sound, data-driven policies and practices in sentencing and corrections that protect public safety, hold offenders accountable and control corrections costs. CJI will work with the project in three main areas:
- Intensive public and policy maker education and in-depth research and analysis in South Carolina and at least two additional states where the climate for corrections reform is strong.
- In collaboration with Vera Institute, provide technical assistance to Alabama to develop a model for state-local community corrections partnerships in four pilot sites.
- Design of a 50-state assessment of the extent to which states have policies and laws in place that support the implementation of policies and practices that reduce recidivism, hold offenders accountable, and control corrections costs.
