SJI Finalizes Partner Grant with Pew Charitable Trusts’ Public Safety Performance Project
SJI recently finalized a new Partner Grant with Pew Charitable Trusts’ Public Safety Performance Project. The goal of these activities is to promote fiscally sound, data-driven policies and practices on sentencing and corrections that protect the public safety, hold offenders accountable, and control correctional costs. The National Center for State Courts (NCSC), the Crime and Justice Institute (CJI), and the National Judicial College (NJC) will be working together to provide technical assistance, education, and training to State courts in this vital area. The participating organizations are pleased to be working together on this partnership activity.
The three main areas of activity for this project are: 1) educating and mobilizing chief justices and other state court leaders in support of state sentencing and corrections reforms; 2) helping create national visibility and awareness of the need for state sentencing and corrections reforms; and 3) training state judges and other court leaders in select states on the use of evidence-based practices, particularly in the areas of offender risk assessment, correctional programming, responding to technical violations of probation, and performance measurement. As part of these activities, NCSC and CJI will work intensively in select states where the Public Safety Performance Project is working to provide non-partisan research, analysis, training, and consulting services regarding evidence-based practices to court officials and community corrections executives. Information and services will also be available to state courts and judges across the United States. In addition, NCSC and NJC will develop an innovative model curriculum for state judges on evidence-based practices to reduce recidivism.
The Pew Public Safety Performance Project currently works in 11 states to promote policies that maintain public safety, hold offenders accountable, and control corrections costs. For more information please visit the project’s website: www.pewpublicsafety.org.
