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Abstract: 

Nearly 2 million individuals are incarcerated in jails or prisons across local, county, state, and federal corrections systems, and almost 4 million individuals are on some form of community supervision. Community supervision is viewed as an alternative to incarceration, but many states are struggling with increasing or stagnant revocation rates, which often result in an admission or return to incarceration. To understand the sources of this trend, the Crime and Justice Institute, with support from Arnold Ventures, began a comprehensive assessment of community supervision practices in four states: Colorado, Florida, Mississippi, and Montana. The goal of the project was to provide state supervision leaders with the information necessary to inform the adoption or expansion of evidence-based supervision practices demonstrated to positively affect successful supervision outcomes and safely reduce revocations.

Keywords: Community supervision, incarceration, revocation, sentencing, evidence-based practice

Affiliations:  1: Crime and Justice Institute; 2: Crime and Justice Institute; 3: Crime and Justice Institute; 4: Crime and Justice Institute.