Specializing in prison overcrowding solutions and diversion programs that are efficient and cost effective.
Institute for Reform and Solutions’ consulting services help leaders and organizations build exceptional criminal justice programs. By focusing on established criminal justice best practices, efficient and effective reform structures, and positive and mission-centered dynamics, Institute for Reform and Solutions can help your organization identify opportunities to strengthen its criminal justice programs as well as address specific challenges that – when overcome – allow your organization to reach its full potential to deliver on its important mission. Institute for Reform and Solutions’ approach to its consultative services is:
Outcome-Focused. Unlike boiler plate criminal justice models that prescribe one-size-fits-all approaches, Institute for Reform and Solutions’ consultants work to design tailored approaches and solutions that achieve the desired outcomes.
Client-Centered. Institute for Reform and Solutions’ consultants are experts in effective practices and the criminal justice sector. They build customized solutions that address specific needs and do so in a way that is consistent with organizational values and philosophies.
Strength-Based. Institute for Reform and Solutions’ consulting philosophy is to build on an organization’s existing strengths to help move its criminal justice program(s) to a higher level of performance.
Program-Focused. Institute for Reform and Solutions is dedicated to supporting and strengthening criminal justice programs and to the unique leadership opportunities and challenges of the criminal justice sector. It is the only national organization with targeted focus on good, effective criminal justice practices.
Our educational services, training, seminars and webinars include a wide range of services to communities interested in increasing fairness in pretrial processes and reducing the number of people in its jails.
They include:
Risk Population Management/Prison Overcrowding: we develop and validate risk instruments for specific communities, as well as provide supervision strategies, designed to protect community safety and minimize needless pretrial detention by identifying which individuals can be safely released.
Specialty Courts: we design and develop new specialty courts, or assess existing ones, to serve as a pretrial diversion or release mechanism (such as drug courts, mental health courts, or juvenile courts).
Pretrial Program Development: we design, develop and implement pretrial services programs.
Program Assessment: we conduct operational and outcome-based assessments of pretrial services programs and pretrial diversion program.
Facilitation: We facilitate negotiations on-site among system stakeholders to develop operating agreements.
Speakers: We provide speakers to discuss alternative strategies to incarceration.
Training Materials: We offer a wide range of training courses for pretrial services directors and staff.