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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
  • NACo Presentation on Tools to Improve Criminal Justice Outcomes
  • Pretrial Cost-Benefit Paper
  • Cost-Benefit Methodology
  • Sonoma County Technical Assistance
  • Oregon Sentencing: Measure 11 Analysis
  • Cost-Benefit and Realignment Presentation