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Center for Sentencing Initiatives ...providing information, analysis, and education to promote sentencing practices that protect the public and reduce recidivism.
   
 
 
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Several states are engaged in activities to review their sentencing and corrections strategies and identify effective practices to promote public safety and reduce recidivism. These include the target states of the Pew Public Safety Performance Project. Links to information about state activities are provided below. Please let us know if there are sentencing initiatives in these or other states not captured here.
 

Pew/SJI Target States

map Alabama
Arizona
California
Connecticut
Illinois
Kansas
Michigan
Nebraska
Nevada
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
Texas
Vermont


Sentencing Initiatives in Other States
Maine
Crime and Justice Institute, Evidence-Based Practices: A Framework for Sentencing Policy (November 2006).

Ohio
Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction Institute on Correctional Best Practices, Best Practices Tool-Kit: Community Corrections and Evidence-Based Practices (February 2008).

Wisconsin
Wisconsin Court System Third Branch Newsletter, Effective Justice Strategies (Spring 2008).

 
 
 
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