Swift Certain Fair Resource Center

  • Programs
  • SCF Evaluations
  • Newsroom
  • About
Home
|
State
|
Pennsylvania
|
Pennsylvania Governor announces prison inmate population drops for fourth consecutive year after record reduction
Posted on July 23, 2018 by Kelly Smith

Pennsylvania Governor announces prison inmate population drops for fourth consecutive year after record reduction

Christian Stephens, deputy secretary of field supervision, said several recent initiatives have allowed field operations to safely increase the number of reentrants it can manage leading to more efficient and expedited release process.
“We are utilizing proven evidence-based practices, which preserve public safety, such as lowering the caseload ratios by hiring over 150 new agents in the past 18 months, increasing use of GPS, and fully implementing the use of the contact report, which assists our agents in the prioritization of their work,” said Stephens.
Among the legislative proposals under the second phase of Justice Reinvestment Initiative (JRI2) are the introduction of “presumptive parole,” where short-term, non-violent offenders are automatically paroled upon completion of their minimum sentence, the expansion of the State Intermediate Punishment (SIP) program, which offers shorter sentences for drug offenders, combined with substance use disorder treatment and enacting a short sanctioning option for technical parole violators, such as the Swift, Certain, and Fair (SCF) approach.
The main driver of the population decrease in 2017 was a large reduction in parole violator admissions, which dropped by 10.2 percent in 2017, said Bucklen. And further inmate population reductions and additional cost savings are possible if the continued reforms are implemented.

Posted in Pennsylvania
HOPE Probation: A New Path to Desistance?
Contingency Management Programs in Corrections: Another Panacea?

SIGN UP FOR UPDATES

Keep up with the latest from the Swift Certain Fair Resource Center. Subscribe to our newsletter.

Find us

Swift Certain Fair Resource Center New York University 370 Jay Street, 12th Floor Brooklyn, NY 11201 Telephone: (646) 308-0508

E-mail: info@scfcenter.org

New York University Marron Institute of Urban Management
Web Site Notice of Federal Funding and Disclaimer:
This Web site is funded in whole or in part through a grant from the Bureau of Justice Assistance, Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice. Neither the U.S. Department of Justice nor any of its components operate, control, are responsible for, or necessarily endorse, this Web site (including, without limitation, its content, technical infrastructure, and policies, and any services or tools provided). SCFCenter.org - Copyright © 2023. All rights reserved.