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... that delivers increased public safety at a lower cost. The Justice Reinvestment Initiative (JRI) is a response to these calls and has been a strong catalyst for state reform. A public-private partnership between the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) and The Pew Charitable Trusts (Pew), JRI was formally...

... to today s policy reform environment in the U.S. penal system. We demonstrate that the direction the justice reinvestment work has taken has not mattered much in reducing mass incarceration. Overall, states that have undertaken formal Justice Reinvestment Initiatives (JRI) are not different...

... in practice. To varying degrees, each of these concerns has been borne out by experience. The post-2000 sentencing reform movement found its culmination in the Justice Reinvestment Initiative (JRI). The concept of justice reinvestment was rst developed in a 2003 paper by Susan Tucker and Eric Cadora.4...

... of Pennsylvania s criminal justice system was central to the initial Justice Reinvestment Initiative (JRI-I) in 2012, which addressed back-end reforms, with deliverables including better coordination between the PDOC and the PBPP, elimination of certain pre-release programs, and the reworking of consequences...

... in reducing the nancial and human costs associated with incarceration. In less than fteen years, over half of the states have participated in some form of Justice Reinvestment Initiative (JRI), with the majority involving a bipartisan, interagency work group to review the policies and practices that drive...

... million.4 Through a national effort referred to as the Justice Reinvestment Initiative (JRI), the reduction of correctional spending was designed to be reinvested into funding programs that have shown to be effective in decreasing offender recidivism. In fact, $5 million from the projected prison bed...

... as needed. Pennsylvania had a recent history of legislative sentencing reforms . . . a Special Session on Crime in 1995, Correctional and Sentencing Reforms in 2008, Justice Reinvestment Initiative (JRI-I) in 2012, and a second Justice Reinvestment (JRI-II) in 2019. But the last comprehensive review...

... States, where since 2010, supported by the federal Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA), twenty-four states and seventeen localities (i.e., counties) have engaged in the Justice Reinvestment Initiative (JRI).1 This has enabled a more consistent approach to JR development than seen in the United Kingdom...

... Reinvestment Initiative (JRI), the Department of Justice, through its Bureau of Justice Assistance, has invested hundreds of millions of dollars, funneled through the Pew Center for the States, to assist the states in analysis of sentencing practices and development of strategies to lower prison counts through...

....2017.30.2.91 FEDERAL SENTENCING REPORTER VOL. 30, NO. 2 DECEMBER 2017 91 Most of the covered states have attempted systematic, data-driven, research-based reform. In some states, such as Ohio and Kansas, much of the work has been formally linked to the national Justice Reinvestment Initiative (JRI).5...

..., there is a growing, bipartisan consensus that mass incarceration should be ended (or, at least, curtailed). One manifestation of America s fading love affair with prisons was the allocation of Justice Reinvestment Initiative (JRI) funds by Congress in 2010. The JRI strategy was described by Fabelo and Thompson, long...

... of more than 28 states on the journey of the Justice Reinvestment Initiative (JRI). The JRI is a public-private partnership that includes the U.S. Justice Department s Bureau of Justice Assistance, The Pew Charitable Trusts, the Council of State Governments Justice Center, the Crime and Justice Institute...

... to the second round of Justice Reinvestment Initiative (JRI-2) that got off the ground in Pennsylvania in early 2016. The Strategic Planning Work Group identi ed structural needs and options that I hope JRI-2 will consider while JRI-2, in turn, interacts with the Commission and others. Of particular importance...

...—embarked on JRI 2.0; this time, the Ohio Criminal Sentencing Commission was the lead agency. There was and is no denying that the state’s criminal code has become increasingly complex and fraught with provisions that are exceedingly difficult to administer. The fiscal strains of burgeoning prisons...

... as an extension of the federal Justice Reinvestment Initiative (JRI). Inspired by how the Netherlands treats mentally ill offenders, Pennsylvania is now using the momentum gained through its own JRI initiative in 2012 to propose revamping its Mental Health Procedures Act in order to improve the treatment...

... Initiative (JRI-II),14 the distribution of discretionary state funding to support county probation and parole departments is required to consider a county s full submission of data to the Commission15 and the certi cation by the Commission of the county s compliance with the guidelines.16 Only counties certi...

... Incentives Act of 2009, SB 678. 111 Eighteen local sites are participating in the Bureau of Justice Assistance s Justice Reinvestment Initiative. See La Vigne, Nancy Number of JRI local sites October 2, 2012, personal e-mail (accessed October 3, 2012).s 144 FEDERAL SENTENCING REPORTER VOL. 26, NO. 2...