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...Miriam Krinsky; Monica Fuhrmann Abstract The federal community supervision system is in need of reforms that promote fairness and justice, and can look to changes and innovations in state and local level supervision as a guide to creating transformation. This article begins with a brief overview...

...Juliene James; Dylan Hayre For several years, Arnold Ventures has been investing in supervision reform, supporting researchers, practitioners, advocates, and scholars who are seeking to achieve a fundamental shift in policy, practice, and outcomes. We envision systems that are grounded...

...Julie Rud Julie Rud is the community corrections field services area director for Hennepin County (Minneapolis). Only five states have more people on probation than Minnesota, yet Hennepin County is a leader in reforms to supervision, including eliminating fees and cutting the use of drug testing...

... fundamentally unfair the process can become without guaranteed access to exculpatory and mitigating evidence. Reform is needed. And as the relatively new supervised-release discovery practices of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina demonstrate, reform is possible. Rethinking...

... legislative reform efforts in the United States as well as changes in correctional training and supervision practices. © The Ohio State University Human dignity human rights resocialization rehabilitation evidence-based practices Eighth Amendment cruel and unusual punishment mandatory penalties...

... sentencing” “medication assisted treatment” “supervision” Sentencing to Drug Court: Tailoring the Program to the Participant Through Judicial Education and Oversight I. Introduction The need for criminal justice reform is increasingly recognized by the general population and has become a meaningful...

... as burdensome38 and continue to expand.39 Many scholars and policy makers have argued that the costs of correctional supervision are a potential avenue for reform, as the costs are often extensive, unclear, and arbitrary.40 Correctional costs are consequential: they can be a barrier to success on supervision,41...

... or to provide supervision options to reduce the number of revocations to prison; and, broader sentencing reform. makers concerned with escalating prison populations will need to address sentencing and parole policies with a multifaceted approach, incorporating an expanded use of alternatives to incarceration...

... prisons, often through Community Corrections Acts (Shilton 1992). These reforms address what Zimring and Hawkins (1991) dub the correctional free lunch problem, which is that in many states, counties pay for local supervision (jail and probation), while the state funds prisons. Thus, judges may have...

..., strengthen community supervision, and monitor the progress of state reforms. Amending Sentencing Laws JRI states recognize that sentencing policy can have a strong impact on prison populations, and more states are SAMANTHA HARVELL JEREMY WELSHLOVEMAN HANNA LOVE JULIA DURNAN JOSH EISENSTAT LAURA GOLIAN EDDIE...

... recalibration of the way in which federal probation and supervised release is administered, in favor of swift, certain, and fair punishment of violations of conditions of supervision. There is signi cant interest in testing these back-end reforms in the federal system as pilot efforts. If successful...

... and counterproductive. Any sustainable change will require a wholesale revisitation of these parole strategies, beginning at the point of sentencing and continuing through to supervision and revocation procedures. I. State Reforms, 2004 2006 A. Probation and Parole Reform Between 2004 and 2006, nine states passed...

..., compared to over 112,500 on supervised release.16 Congress created supervised release in the Sentencing Reform Act (SRA) of 1984, replacing an older system of supervision called parole. Before the SRA, judges sentenced criminal defendants to xed terms of imprisonment, and after a prisoner had served one...

... probation provides, and who would not otherwise be serving sentences long enough to promote other legitimate sentencing goals recognized in § 3553(a). In cases in which the purposes of sentencing are best advanced by a supervised, community-based sentence, reform of this kind would allow federal judges...

... and/or strict community supervision. Before the reform was introduced, 44% of sentenced felons were receiving a prison term. After implementation, that rate fell sharply to just 29%. Today, North Carolina has the second lowest incarceration rate in the South. D. Parole Reforms With a public more ready...

... high. See U.S. Sentencing Commission, Federal Offenders Sentenced to PostSentence Supervision 69 70 (July 2010). 22 Federal Judicial Caseload Statistics, supra note 19, at Table E7A, Federal Probation System Federal Judicial Caseload Statistics. 23 See Rand Paul Supports Reform to Our Criminal Justice...

... and victimization rates among the 125,000 parolees currently under state supervision. I. The Challenges Facing Parole in California Any discussion of parole reform must begin by recognizing the enormous challenges facing DAPO. The challenges become evident if one considers the immense size of the correctional...

... Sentencing Commission, and by executive-branch agencies. III. Developments at the State Level Since 2001, state sentencing reforms targeting the reduction of the prison population have focused on three areas: drug treatment and diversion, community supervision, and earned discharge and release policies...

... the story of Realignment did not begin in 2011. Rather, Realignment represents the expansion of criminal justice reforms that San Francisco has been engaged in for years. These reforms have aimed to provide effective community supervision, protect public safety, reduce recidivism, decrease victimization...

... and delivering evidencebased corrections programs. The specific reforms are (a) the downsizing of the state s system for incarcerating juvenile offenders, (b) the elimination of supervised parole for nonviolent, nonserious adult offenders, and (c) new policies that divert juvenile and adult technical parole...