What Goals Are Met When You Offer A Diversion Program? Goal: Reduce Docket maintenance and conserve resources Diversion programs are a cost-saving resource for prosecutors, courts, and jail/prisons alike. Diversion will reduce the number of cases in the criminal justice system as well as post-adjudication supervision/confinement. More importantly for your office, offering diversion earlier in…
I had the pleasure of attending “Pre-trial Services and Post-Pandemic Life: What Comes Next”, a webinar paneled by Judge George Eskin (ret.), Chief Tanja Heitman (Santa Barbara County, Chief Probation Officer), Spurgeon Kennedy (President Elect of NAPSA), and Brandon Buskey (attorney with the ACLU) on Monday May 24. NAPSA published a survey recently about changes…
Attenti has partnered with CorrectiveSolutions to provide GPS technicians throughout Florida for Attenti’s contract with the Florida Department of Corrections. Attenti is one of the nations leading GPS offender monitoring manufacturers and operates worldwide, and we are confident they recognize CorrectiveSolutions as a great provider of technician staff. Attenti and CorrectiveSolutions have worked together on…
The first step to developing your own diversion program is to identify goals that the program aims to address. Traditionally, as stated by the NDAA, “the purposes of diversion programs include: Unburdening court dockets and conserving judicial resources for more serious cases; reducing the incidence of offender recidivism by providing community-based rehabilitation that would be…
The scope and variety of diversion programs across the country reflect a policy and political context that is increasingly receptive to the benefits of diversion. Diverting individuals away from charges, and the lifelong collateral of consequences that come with them, into diversion programs that more effectively and efficiently address the conditions underlying criminal behaviors, is…
CorrectiveSolutions is proud to announce its continued partnership with Securus as part of their contract with the County of Los Angeles. Securus is a pioneer in the GPS technology industry and one of the largest GPS tracking manufacturers. CorrectiveSolutions provides GPS tech services and case management for various LA County agencies across the county in…
The Sonoma County District Attorney’s office has added additional offenses to the existing prefiling diversion program. These offenses include drug paraphernalia and other low level drug related offenses that are geared to deter substance abuse in Sonoma County and help the offender avoid having a criminal record. For these drug-related offenses, the Prefiling Program will…
CorrectiveSolutions has been awarded a contract with the City of Tucson, Arizona through a highly competitive RFP process for the case management of Tucson City’s Court supervised and Probation Department directed monitored probation program. CorrectiveSolutions meets with defendants sentenced to Monitored Probation by a judge and follows up with defendants that they are meeting the…
