WADOC improving public safety by positively changing lives: Opportunity for supervision reform and reentry

ofm.wa.gov/sites/default/files/public/budget/statebudget/highlights/budget20/2020_HumanServices.pdf

What Research Suggests: The DOC and its employees are committed to positively changing the lives of individuals on supervision. Research provides evidence and supports the following:
• A wide spectrum of sanctions (i.e. non-, partial and total confinement) coupled with incentives for supervision compliance are more effective in shaping the behaviors of individuals.
• Sanctions must be commensurate with the alleged violation and responsive to an individual’s risk, needs and circumstances. They must be swift, certain and fair
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Swift and Certain sanctioning “Reduce the community violator population through a sentencing change that would allow for nonconfinement sanctions for low-level violations; remove the requirement that after an individual commits five violations under community custody, each subsequent violation must be addressed through a hearing and is subject to a sanction of up to 30 days in jail; and remove requirements outlining special rules for addressing violations that constitute new crimes by individuals on supervision for one of 21 underlying offenses.”