With a court-ordered cap on the jail population and increasing budget demands, the county is now turning to data to determine how to stem the rising incarceration rates, which had been exacerbated by the 2011 Public Safety Realignment.

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The offender screening tool (OST) is an assessment of the defendant’s risk to reoffend and criminogenic needs. There are 9 categories, or domains, assessed in the OST. The OST is a standardized, statewide, validated tool approved by the Administrative Office of the Courts (AOC).

The current study examines the effectiveness of communitybased violation responses and jail-based responses from 283 randomly selected Intensive Supervision Program (ISP) participants in Wyoming.

Probation officers have the ability to implement additional sanctions to help curb poor behavior and keep probationers on the right track to rehabilitation.

This webinar goes over the history of Swift and Sure; key concepts for program success; eligibility criteria; and day-to-day operations including court hearings, supervision, drug testing, and sanctions following violations." (running time 12:42)

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More than 1,500 probationers in four sites were randomly assigned to probation as usual (PAU) or to Honest Opportunity Probation with Enforcement (HOPE), which is modeled on Hawaii's Opportunity Probation with Enforcement (Hawaii HOPE) program that emphasizes close monitoring; frequent drug testing; and swift, certain, and fair (SCF) sanctioning.

The National Institute of Corrections over the last three-plus decades established and sustained a broad array of networks, which are designed to bring together people from a particular discipline within the larger criminal justice and corrections arenas. These networks have proven an effective means for professionals to share information, germinate ideas, provide a repository for information and educate stakeholders.

NIC Justice Involved Veterans Homepage - We are a network of community, local, state, and federal partners Identifying and developing innovative and holistic approaches that assist justice-involved veterans.

NIC recommend Reading list of tribal resources.

This guide is intended to provide tribal probation personnel with information on how the screening and assessment process can facilitate and promote offender accountability and long-term behavior change.