Transcript JDAI in Dakota County

Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative
JDAI
Creating equity,
efficiency and
effectiveness in
juvenile justice
practice
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Purpose
Objectives:
• Eliminate inappropriate or
unnecessary use of secure
detention
• Minimize failures to appear
and incidence of delinquent
behavior
• Eliminate racial and ethnic
disparities
• Redirect public finances to
successful reform strategies
• Improve conditions in secure
detention facilities
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Reform Design
• Collaboration
• Reliance on Data
• Detention screening
Risk Assessment Instrument
(RAI)
• Detention Alternatives
• Eliminating Racial and
Ethnic Disparities
• Special Detention Cases
Probation violations
Warrants
• Case Processing
Lengths of Stay
• Conditions of Confinement
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Strategies to Eliminating Disparities
• Use data to pinpoint areas for reform
• Analyze decision points through a
racial, ethnic, gender, geography
and offense lens
• Include impacted communities in
reform process
• Develop, implement and monitor
reform strategies
KEY:
• System-community partnership
• Courageous, humble leadership
• Political will
• Policies and criteria at decision points
that support equitable outcomes for all
youth
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Minnesota Pilot Sites - Reform Dakota,
Hennepin & Ramsey Counties
Risk Assessment Instruments:
• Implemented in First Quarter 2008
• Dakota County mental and chemical health triage through Crisis Intervention
• Ramsey County Outcomes – released youth did not reoffend and appeared for Court
Detention Alternatives:
• Continuum of pre and post adjudication community based alternatives
• Community Trackers, North & South Minneapolis, Hennepin County
Racial and Ethnic Disparities:
• System analysis from arrest to discharge
• Percent reductions
• Collaboration with communities of color, schools and juvenile justice system
Conditions of Confinement:
• Cross county facility inspections
• Elimination of double bunking with drop in detention populations
• Increased mental health oversight and support
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Minnesota Pilot Sites - Impact
90
Average Daily Population in Detention:
Pre-JDAI 2005 to JDAI Initiation 2006 - 2007
Hennepin County
2006
(82.7)
80
70
60
50
40
Ramsey County
Pre-JDAI 2005
(61.8)
2006
(52.2)
2007
(42.9)
30
20
10
Dakota County
Pre-JDAI 2005
(12)
2006
(7)
2007
(7)
0
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2007
(79.4)
Minnesota Pilot Sites - Disparities
Dakota, Hennepin & Ramsey Counties
2006 (Jan – Dec)
2007 (Jan – June)
Dakota:
ADP in Detention
7
7
Youth of Color Percent
3 (43%)
4 (57%)
Hennepin:
ADP in Detention
82.7
79.4
Youth of Color Percent
73.4 (88.7%)
72.3 (91%)
Ramsey:
ADP in Detention
52.1
46.4
Youth of Color Percent
42 (80%)
38 (82%)
Average Daily Population
(ADP)
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Disproportionate Minority Contact (DMC)
Minnesota DMC REPORT 2003
Statewide Perspective
60.00%
54.20%
50.00%
44.65%
39.67%
40.00%
34.70%
36.32%
30.00%
20.00%
17.30%
10.00%
0.00%
Population at Risk Juvenile Arrests
Petitions
Delinquent
Findings
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Secure
Confinement
Adult Certification
Next Steps
Transforming Juvenile Justice
• Increasing collaboration
between agencies and
communities
• Responding to youth
appropriately based on
risk – creating
alternatives
• Implementing strategies
to ensure equitable
outcomes for all youth.
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