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Implementing Jail Reform: The Approaches Counties Use to Alter Local Jails._____________

Stepping Up

The strategies counties use to implement evidence-based practices for individuals involved in the criminal legal system with behavioral health conditions ______________________________________

+10 million people experience jail incarceration every year

Evaluation of Stepping Up implementation approaches

Fills the critical gap in the literature of examining the use or effectiveness of these strategies in relation to jails and the reform of jails. How did we do?

• Examines strategies used and explore difference across size of the jurisdictions.

• Survey Questionaires via Qualtrics, phone, and mail addressed to 950 counties.

• 29 approaches grouped under 4 overarching processes examined with reference to 4 point rating system and size of the counties(small,medium and large).

81% of jail population is held in pre trial status

Jails are severely under resourced offering little by way of mental health services.

64% of the jail population reports a history of mental illness (MI),

What did we find?

SAM

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Longer the incarceration greater the likelihood of prison sentence

Jail incarceration has adverse consequneces for community level health outcomes

Cenr r Advancing Correctional Excellence, Schar Sool of Policy and Government, George Mason University

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• Resource intensive approaches-capacity building and quality programming are least used.

• Resource light approaches-Relationship building and shared definitions are the dominant approaches regardless of the size of the counties or the respondent types.

Team

Benjamin J. Mackey & Prof. Faye S Taxmann

Resource availability determines abilities of counties to use implementation approaches.