<p>State policy makers across the nation are asking whether soaring prison budgets are the best path to public safety.  Increasingly, they are finding that the answer is “no.” Pew’s Public Safety Performance Project helps states advance fiscally sound, data-driven policies and practices in sentencing and corrections that protect public safety, hold offenders accountable and control corrections costs. The Project currently collaborates with the Pew Center on the States and five external partners to provide expert, non-partisan information and assistance to 13 states that want a better return on their public safety investments.<br /></p> http://www.pewtrusts.org/news_room.aspx <p>Public Safety Performance Project director Adam Gelb discusses the expansion of Hawaii’s Opportunity Probation and Enforcement (HOPE) program and, more broadly, how new evidence about what works to break the cycle of crime and imprisonment is helping states cut corrections costs and enhance public safety.</p> Thu, 06 Oct 2011 09:20:00 GMT http://www.pewtrusts.org/our_work_report_detail.aspx?id=85899364941&WT.rss_ev=f&WT.rss_f=Corrections and Public Safety&WT.rss_a=Q&A&WT.z_contenttype=Report <p>Over the past few decades, experts have developed and refined risk/needs instruments to measure the likelihood of an individual returning to crime, violence or drug use. These tools can help officials to better identify offenders at a high risk of reoffending, while also pinpointing the types of supervision and services that are most likely to prevent future criminal behavior and slow the revolving door of America’s prisons.</p> Tue, 20 Sep 2011 09:00:00 GMT http://www.pewtrusts.org/our_work_report_detail.aspx?id=85899364058&WT.rss_ev=f&WT.rss_f=Corrections and Public Safety&WT.rss_a=Risk-Needs Assessment 101: Science Reveals New Tools to Manage Offenders&WT.z_contenttype=Report <p>CBS news highlights <a href="/initiatives_detail.aspx?initiativeID=85899358500" target="_self">Pew findings</a> on the high cost of recidivism.</p> Wed, 13 Apr 2011 10:15:00 GMT http://www.pewtrusts.org/news_room_detail.aspx?id=85899358697&WT.rss_ev=f&WT.rss_f=Corrections and Public Safety&WT.rss_a=More Than 40 Percent of Ex-Cons Return to Prison&WT.z_contenttype=PewInTheMedia <p>Arizona's innovative probation reforms have been able to show early signs of reducing the rate of prison growth. | <a href="/initiatives_detail.aspx?initiativeID=31336" target="_self">Public Safety Performance Project</a> </p> Mon, 07 Mar 2011 09:00:00 GMT http://www.pewtrusts.org/our_work_report_detail.aspx?id=328599&WT.rss_ev=f&WT.rss_f=Corrections and Public Safety&WT.rss_a=The Impact of Arizona's Probation Reforms&WT.z_contenttype=Report <p>The broad series of reforms Governor Steve Beshear signed into law today puts Kentucky at the forefront of states advancing research-driven, criminal justice policies designed to protect public safety, hold offenders accountable and control corrections costs.</p> Thu, 03 Mar 2011 18:10:05 GMT http://www.pewtrusts.org/news_room_detail.aspx?id=328572&WT.rss_ev=f&WT.rss_f=Corrections and Public Safety&WT.rss_a=Pew Applauds Kentucky Leaders for Comprehensive Public Safety Reforms&WT.z_contenttype=PressRelease <p>Kentucky's prison population is among the fastest growing in the nation. | <a href="/initiatives_detail.aspx?initiativeID=31336" target="_self">Public Safety Performance Project <br /><br /></a></p> Tue, 19 Oct 2010 12:25:26 GMT http://www.pewtrusts.org/our_work_report_detail.aspx?id=61357&WT.rss_ev=f&WT.rss_f=Corrections and Public Safety&WT.rss_a=Kentucky: A Data-Driven Effort to Protect Public Safety and Control Corrections Spending&WT.z_contenttype=Report <p>Incarceration reduces former inmates' earnings by 40 percent and limits their future economic mobility | <a href="/initiatives_detail.aspx?initiativeID=31336" target="_self">Public Safety Performance Project</a> </p> Thu, 23 Sep 2010 13:17:38 GMT http://www.pewtrusts.org/our_work_report_detail.aspx?id=60919&WT.rss_ev=f&WT.rss_f=Corrections and Public Safety&WT.rss_a=Collateral Costs: Incarceration’s Effect on Economic Mobility&WT.z_contenttype=Report <p>New Hampshire's prison population decreased last year, even before a new and controversial program to reduce prisoner recidivism begins July 1.</p> Mon, 14 Jun 2010 17:07:39 GMT http://www.pewtrusts.org/news_room_detail.aspx?id=59497&WT.rss_ev=f&WT.rss_f=Corrections and Public Safety&WT.rss_a=As Prison Population Drops, Push On to Curb Recidivism&WT.z_contenttype=NewsArticle <p>But through good times and bad, lawmakers have refused even to consider reforming our tough-but-stupid-on-crime sentencing laws, terrified of being labeled soft on crime. Finally, that has changed.<br /></p> Mon, 14 Jun 2010 14:52:59 GMT http://www.pewtrusts.org/news_room_detail.aspx?id=59494&WT.rss_ev=f&WT.rss_f=Corrections and Public Safety&WT.rss_a=Sentencing Reform Law Will Make S.C. Safer&WT.z_contenttype=OpinionEditorial Terms and Conditions Page http://www.pewtrusts.org/terms_and_conditions.aspx