Facilities (General Capacity/Security)

Objective 1: Develop standards for local jurisdictions and state criminal justice agencies that will result in data being accurately and comprehensively aggregated at the state and national levels. (Tier 2 metrics and TIGs)
In August the first four metrics committees (Jails, Prisons, Law Enforcement and Community Supervision) met. The committees accepted most of the recommendations that came out of public feedback.

Objective 5: Develop and run a national campaign to educate criminal justice agency leaders, policymakers, and the public about the Justice Counts metrics. (Website Work)
In July, CSG Justice Center staff worked toward a finalized design of the Prison Dashboard.
The request for proposals (RFP) for agency dashboard design, development, and deployment closed on August 21 with ten proposals from contractors received. CSG Justice Center staff reviewed the proposals and will make a selection to move the dashboard work forward.

Objective 2: Develop tools and make them available to states and other interested jurisdictions (publisher).
Work for this objective is now complete with the development and implementation of the Justice Counts Publisher.

Objective 6: Provide intensive TA to 10 states, supporting the adoption and use of the Justice Counts metrics to drive decision-making. (Founding State Work)

Objective 1: Develop standards for local jurisdictions and state criminal justice agencies that will result in data being accurately and comprehensively aggregated at the state and national levels. (Tier 2 metrics and TIGs)
In July, CSG Justice Center staff completed the analysis of the Tier 2 public feedback and began formatting it into a series of recommendations that the subcommittees will consider in their next meeting.?

Objective 5: Develop and run a national campaign to educate criminal justice agency leaders, policymakers, and the public about the Justice Counts metrics. (Website Work)
In July, CSG Justice Center staff worked towards finalizing the design of the prison dashboard for BJA approval.?CSG's Research Division also took steps to create an internal data visualization team that will work to make dashboards and data stories happen quickly and internally.?

Objective 6: Provide intensive TA to 10 states, supporting the adoption and use of the Justice Counts metrics to drive decision-making. (Founding State Work)

Objective 2: Develop tools and make them available to states and other interested jurisdictions (publisher).
Work for this objective is now complete with the development and implementation of the Justice Counts Publisher.

On August 27 and 28, 2024, CSG Justice Center staff conducted a 1.5 day in-person site visit with the Scioto Paint Valley Mental Health Center in Chillicothe, OH, that included tours of two of the four partnering jails (Ross and Fayette), provided a training on collaborative comprehensive case planning, engaged in discussions with the correctional partners about M.A.T, screening and assessment processes and collaboration with peers and crisis system partners to provide recovery support and crisis stabilization for people in reentry.

CSG Justice Center staff conducted an in-person site visit with the FY22 JMHCP County of Richland, SC, grantee on August 22-23, 2024. Our data consultant from IJIS was able to join both days of the site visit in person to help the grantee overcome some of the barriers they are facing around data collection and information sharing. On the first day of the visit, the CSG Justice Center staff led discussions around outlining the project scope to better distill goals for their data project and identify their key data priorities.