SPECIAL RELEASE OUT NOW. “Balancing Risk: Colorado Parole Board’s Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic,” is currently live on our site. This new report considers the Colorado parole board’s efforts to make prison releases during the pandemic. z.umn.edu/8owz @UofMNLawSchool

The report was generously supported by @ArnoldVentures and written by Gerald G. Gaes FSU and Robina's Julia Laskorunsky, PhD. Data and research support provided by the Colorado State Parole Board and DOC. Read our #Colorado report in full here: z.umn.edu/8owz

🚨 NEW PUBLICATION: Thrilled to have my new paper, "Collateral Consequences and Criminal Justice Reform: Successes and Challenges", out in Crime and Justice: A Review of Research UChicagoPress.  1/4 journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/72… QUB School of Law QUB Institute of Criminology and Criminal Justice

Our report explores how the CO Board of Parole attempted to decrease the prison population during the pandemic. Discretionary releases spiked at the start of COVID-19, indicating a proactive response.👇

I'm happy to announce the publication of @EbRuhland and my article: The Hearing is Just a Formality: You’re Never Getting Out. We explored how incarcerated individuals navigated the parole process and responded to being denied release. 👇journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117…

Your occasional reminder that "crime prevention" often has nothing to do with police or prisons. scholars.org/contribution/r…

JUST RELEASED! “Parole Condition Setting in Iowa” is the first report in a series from our Aligning Supervision Conditions with Risk and Needs project, which aims to improve how supervision conditions are set for people on probation and parole. z.umn.edu/8t0f

The report, supported by Arnold Ventures and written by Kelly Mitchell, includes our findings on the parole condition-setting process utilized by the Iowa Parole Board and what role risk and needs assessments play in the condition-setting process.

Our conclusions: 1) Parole conditions in Iowa are not tailored to the risk and needs of the individual. 2) POs are empowered to remove conditions but do not exercise this power. Instead, they add conditions and selectively enforce the conditions they think are relevant.

Learn more about these conclusions and read the report in full on our website: z.umn.edu/8t0f

In her new role as assistant commissioner of Community Services and Reentry at the DOC, Kelly Lyn Mitchell is now in charge of Minnesota’s probation and supervised release services. Q&A by Mohamed Ibrahim bit.ly/44bhU6U

NEW REPORT! “Probation Condition Setting in Johnson County, Kansas” is the latest installment in our “Understanding How Probation and Parole Conditions Are Set” series. z.umn.edu/8t0f

Each week, we ask everyone at JIL to set aside time for learning. It can be spent learning about anything – though typically it's something in the criminal justice space. This week, JIL’s @AnalyzeJustice shares a review on a report from Robina Institute: medium.com/@Lab4justice/r…

New policy brief—supported by Arnold Ventures—proposes aligning supervision conditions with the Risk-Needs-Responsivity framework to improve outcomes for individuals on supervision and the community. z.umn.edu/8zdc

The average person on probation or parole must comply with 17 supervision conditions. But are these conditions effective in promoting behavioral change? In this brief, we question some of the basic assumptions around condition setting. Kelly Mitchell @EbRuhland

JUST RELEASED! “Understanding Failure to Maintain Contact Violations” investigates the underlying causes of absconding by interviewing people on probation in Ramsey County, MN. z.umn.edu/91ez

The report was written by Kelly Mitchell and @EbRuhland, and provides insight into why people abscond and offers potential ways to prevent future failure to maintain contact violations. Learn more and read the full report on our website: z.umn.edu/91ez

This study was conducted as part of the Reducing Revocations Challenge, a CUNY Institute for State & Local Governance national initiative supported by Arnold Ventures that is dedicated to understanding the drivers of probation revocations and identifying ways to reduce them when appropriate.

New study from MN Dept. of Corrections tests whether men and women have different risk factors for mortality after release from prison: authors.elsevier.com/a/1iGsP,17Rod9…

Excited to announce the publication of our latest research in FSR, with Gerry Gaes and Kevin Reitz. Robina Institute @UofMNLawSchool online.ucpress.edu/fsr/article-ab…