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A Successful Approach to Comprehensive Reform
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The good news is that there is a better way, JDAI works because it engages multiple
and it’s already making a difference in juve- stakeholders, including judges, prosecutors,
nile justice systems across the country. Since defense attorneys, probation officers, elected
, the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s officials, and community representatives, in
Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative the search for more efficient and effective
(JDAI) has worked to strengthen juvenile programs, policies, and practices that can
justice systems, make communities safer, reduce inappropriate detention, improve
help youth, and save tax dollars. JDAI pro- public safety, and save money.
motes systemwide reform by focusing on a “Policy is now made and driven by data,
variety of ways to safely reduce reliance on not by fads, not by hunches,” said Michael
detention, which many consider to be the Mahoney, co-chair of the Cook County
gateway to the juvenile justice system’s “deep (Chicago) JDAI steering committee.
end.” “Children who are detained, rather Called the “most significant juvenile
than released to their parents or some other justice reform effort in decades” by Earl
kind of program, are statistically much more Dunlap, executive director of the National
likely to be incarcerated at the end of the Juvenile Detention Association, JDAI sites
process,” said Mark Soler, president of the have substantially reduced detention and
Center for Children’s Law and Policy. improved public safety by making smarter,
JDAI was designed to demonstrate that more timely decisions; creating new alterna-
jurisdictions could safely reduce reliance on tives to secure confinement; and implement-
detention, and use those efforts to strengthen ing other data-driven policies and practices
juvenile justice systems overall. JDAI has a that establish system accountability for
proven record of success and is spreading results. According to Hon. John Salazar,
across the country. With reform efforts under former presiding juvenile court judge of
way in approximately jurisdictions in Santa Cruz County, “Once you see these
states and the District of Columbia, JDAI other options, you’ll never go back.”
will be operational in those places responsi-
ble for almost percent of the country’s
detained population by the end of .
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JDAI’s Core Strategies
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Collaboration Case processing reforms
between major juvenile justice to speed up the flow of cases so that
agencies, governmental entities, and youth don’t languish in detention.
community organizations.
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2 Reducing the use of secure confinement
Use of accurate data for “special” cases
to diagnose the system’s problems and like technical probation violations.
identify real solutions.
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3 Deliberate commitment to reducing
Objective admissions criteria and racial disparities
instruments by eliminating biases and ensuring
to replace subjective decisions that a level playing field.
inappropriately place children in custody.
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4 Improving conditions of confinement
Alternatives to detention through routine inspections.
to increase the options available for
arrested youth.
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County sites
State sites
★ Model sites
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RESULTS:
JDAI LOWERS DETENTION POPULATIONS,
ENHANCES PUBLIC SAFETY,
SAVES MONEY, AND
IMPROVES JUVENILE JUSTICE SYSTEMS
OVERALL
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PUBLIC SAFETY IMPROVED
47 %
AV E R A G E R E D U C T I O N I N T H E J U V E N I L E C R I M E I N D I C AT O R
IN THE FOUR JDAI MODEL SITES
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FEWER YOUTH DETAINED
55 %
AV E R A G E R E D U C T I O N O F T H E AV E R A G E D A I LY D E TA I N E D
P O P U L AT I O N I N T H E F O U R J D A I M O D E L S I T E S
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TAX DOLLARS SAVED
$
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M I L L I O N
A M O U N T O F M O N E Y M U LT N O M A H C O U N T Y R E D E P L O Y E D
OVER A TEN-YEAR PERIOD
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DISPROPORTIONATE MINORITY
CONFINEMENT REDUCED
58 %
R E D U C T I O N I N T H E N U M B E R O F L AT I N O Y O U T H H E L D I N
S A N TA C R U Z C O U N T Y ’ S J U V E N I L E H A L L O V E R A T E N - Y E A R P E R I O D
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IMPROVING JUVENILE JUSTICE OVERALL
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To learn more about JDAI or
to become a replication site, visit
JDAI’s homepage on the Casey
Foundation’s website:
www.aecf.org
Chart Sources: U.S. Youth in Secure Detention by Offense (), p. , Sickmund, Melissa, Sladky, T.J., and Kang,
Wei. () “Census of Juveniles in Residential Placement Databook.” www.ojjdp.ncjrs.org/ojstatbb/cjrp. Youth
in Detention by Race/Ethnicity -, p. , Source for data: Sickmund, Melissa, Sladky, T.J., and Kang,
Wei. () “Census of Juveniles in Residential Placement Databook.” www.ojjdp.ncjrs.org/ojstatbb/cjrp. Source
for and data: Census of Public and Private Juvenile Detention, Correctional and Shelter Facilities,
‒. Model site data: pp. , , , , reported by individual model sites, summarized in the “Foundation
Investment Summary .”
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