Priority Area 1: Engage and educate Kansas stakeholders on Justice Reinvestment policies and legislation to promote oversight and sustainability. Update: Three bills relating to JRI policy recommendations were introduced in the Kansas legislature but are all still in their respective committees and have not moved to a floor vote. The legislation is intended to extend early release options for those on probation, enhance good time credits for people in jail, and allow people with felony drug convictions to access food assistance programs. Priority Area 2: Assist Kansas with monitoring progress, collecting data, and tracking outcomes associated with JRI policies. Update: In March, CSG Justice Center staff continued working with the KSSC, KDOC, OJA, and the PRB on data collection and analysis. CSG JC staff met with KDOC to discuss their new Athena client management system and its ability to extract reports for data monitoring. In addition, CSG Justice Center staff continued monitoring the process of the subaward spending with the different agencies. Priority Area 3: Improve the community supervision system by creating efficiencies, consistency, coordination, and collaboration between OJA, KDOC, and Community Corrections entities. Update: In March, the community supervision implementation group met to share updates on the status of the required signatures on the MOU to ensure that people on supervision do not have more than one active supervision officer. In addition, the community supervision implementation group planned to meet again June 9th to coordinate a training presentation schedule to implement the terms of the concurrent supervision MOU. Priority Area 4: Implement standardized general conditions of supervision and utilize a risk, need, responsivity (RNR) framework to select special conditions of supervision. Update: There are no updates this month. The recommendations have not been introduced in the legislature. Priority Area 5: Engage with KDOC and KDADS to improve reentry and behavioral health services for people in the criminal justice system. Update: Policy Research Associates (PRA) and the Kansas Stepping Up Technical Assistance (TA) Center will host a southeastern regional Sequential Intercept Model (SIM) Mapping Summit, which will be offered to counties participating with the TA Center. This two-day event will be conducted in person on April 5 and 6, 2023, on the campus of Cowley County Community College in the Brown Center. This training is being funded by KDADS after the success of the SIM Summit in June 2022 funded through JRI technical assistance.
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