Projects
Pretrial
- Ohio - Multi-site pretrial impact analysis
- Louisiana - Pretrial jail analysis and creation of a pretrial jail dashboard
- Analyzed the implementation of the Public Safety Assessment (PSA) in San Francisco, Montana, and Tulare County
- Ongoing analysis of Tulare County’s pretrial practices
- Pretrial Congressional Briefing
- George Mason University Judicial Symposium on Using Law and Economics to Reform the System of Criminal Justice (2015)
- Pretrial cost-benefit analysis as part of BJA's Smart Pretrial Demonstration Initiative
- Presentation on pretrial cost-benefit analysis at the John Jay College Roundtable on Pretrial Practices (2015)
- Additional Presentations to the International Community Corrections Association (2014), the National Criminal Justice Association (2014), the National Association of Counties (2014), and the National Association of Pretrial Services Agencies (2014)
- South Dakota - Analyzed pretrial populations for Minnehaha and Pennington counties
Cost-Benefit Analysis
- Provided on site cost-benefit training to 14 states and five counties through the Pew-MacArthur Results First Initiative
- Creation of the cost-benefit model that is used in more than 10 California counties
- Provided training and capacity building to six California counties on the use of cost-benefit analysis, recidivism tracking, and program inventorying through the California Association of Counties Support Hub
- Creation of pretrial cost-benefit model with testing in Boulder County, Colorado and Johnson County, Kansas
- Fresno Bridge Academy cost-benefit model
- Creation of criminal justice cost-benefit models in multiple states (Oregon, Maryland, Maine, and Wyoming)
Local Justice Reinvestment
- BJA Cost-Benefit Analysis Webinar
- Allegheny County, PA and Johnson County, KS – Creation of criminal justice cost-benefit model
- Yolo County – Analyzed justice system costs
- San Francisco – Analyzed policy and fiscal impacts of JRI strategies
- Johnson County – Analyzed Policy and fiscal impacts of JRI strategies and created a jail projections model
State Justice Reinvestment
- South Dakota – Modeled sentencing policy changes and estimated the ten year prison forecast
- Oregon – Responsible for sentencing policy modeling and presentations
- Alaska – Trained the analyst and reviewed final estimates for Pew’s policy projections
- Nebraska - Modeled prison impacts of proposed legislation
- Nevada - Updated 10 year prison projections to reflect impacts from the pandemic
- Other – Provided policy modeling and prison projections training
Other Projects
- Analyzed pandemic related policy changes for Colorado's parolees
- Technical support for the implementation of California's AB 372 (Domestic Violence Pilot)
- Analyzed Colorado and Mississippi probation and parole data
- Partnered with Measures for Justice to create cost-avoidance tool for Yolo County
- Created the Projections and Strategies Model Jail Tool (PSM-Jail) and implemented in multiple jurisdictions
- Provided 10-year jail projections for Clark County, Washington and analyzed the impact of policy changes
- Provided expert advice to the Washington State Institute for Public Policy on their Initiative 502 report
- Served as an expert panelist for the Juvenile Drug Court Treatment Guidelines
- Fresno Bridge Academy cost-benefit model
- Wyoming – Drug court analysis
- South Dakota – Analyzed the impact of probation and parole revocations on the prison population
- South Dakota – Analyzed sentencing changes and estimated long term prison impacts
Training
- Smart Pretrial Forum
- Vera Institute’s Cost Benefit Knowledge Bank Webinar
- JRSA Cost-Benefit Seminar
- CJI Cost-Benefit Webinar
Other Presentations and Research