Community Corrections

VIDEO: Innovative program shows way to graduation, not incarceration
150 150 John Guenther

Partnership with community college helps formerly incarcerated students with housing and support to succeed and not return to jail.

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Sentencing Reform and Redemption, California Style
150 150 Jim Mayer

In correcting a mistake with sentencing reform, Governor Brown’s move could open the door to create cost-effective, smart and humane criminal justice strategies in California.

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CA Fwd and Riverside County put data to work on jail overcrowding
150 150 Nadine Ono

The county probation department successfully used data analysis to create a 25 percent reduction in probation violations since spring of 2014.

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VIDEO: CA Fwd webinar Engaging the Community in Public Safety Realignment
150 150 John Guenther

Playback of recent webinar on how counties can effectively engage the public with their realignment efforts in order to improve the community-based approach to public safety.

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Year in Review: Community Corrections
150 150 Christopher Nelson

Perhaps no other project area under the California Forward has achieved so much in a single year while also taking on so much more to start the next than the Partnership for Community Excellence

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VIDEO: Rethinking offender care in Santa Barbara County
150 150 Christopher Nelson

Now almost three years into AB 109, counties like Santa Barbara are allocating resources toward programming that stops recidivism in its tracks

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