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Jail Management - Overcrowding Solutions - Lorrie Garbarz Alan Jackson Benjamin Taub

Jail Management - Overcrowding Solutions - Lorrie Garbarz Alan Jackson Benjamin Taub

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Jail Management

- Overcrowding Solutions -

Lorrie GarbarzAlan Jackson

Benjamin Taub

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W W W . D A T A S P A C E . C O M

Common Jail Management Problems

Overcrowding emergencies & excessive costs– Beds allocated to inmates who can’t post very low bonds– Judges with unusually high jail sentencing rates– Judges with unusually high pre-trial wait times– Jailed inmates who could be routed to alternative sentencing programs– High MDOC ride-out wait times

Erroneous data– Accidental publishing of inmate records that should be suppressed– Multiple records for one inmate

Public jail population Awareness– Percentage of misdemeanants vs. felons in jail– Overall average length of stay of jail population

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Who are we?

Dataspace—premier Data Warehouse & Business Intelligence consulting firm

Established in 1994

Proudly based in downtown Ann Arbor

Clients have included Oakland County, General Motors, Volkswagen of America, Pfizer, R.L. Polk, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan

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What do these problems cost?

Financial– Excessive lengths of stay = excessive costs–Overcrowding creates needs for new facilities– High cost associated with identifying appropriate early release candidates

Non financial– Less than ideal / unsafe conditions• Sleeping in gym• Overcrowded cells

– Public displeasure over early releases forced by overcrowding emergencies

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We have experience in managing these problems…

Worked with Oakland County to develop their criminal justice data warehouse– Average sentenced length of stay reduced from 72 to 70 days– Pending Circuit court dockets reduced by 38%– Fewer overcrowding emergencies– Fewer low-bond inmates in jail– Reduced pre-trial length of stay–Greater ability to predict overcrowding emergencies• On demand reports• Proactive alerts

– Enhanced understanding, by judges, of effects of sentencing practices & pre-trial efficiencies– Sharply increased state reimbursements through Diverted Felons

Program ($15,000 increased to $230,000 per month)– Public relations ‘wins’

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The National Institute of Corrections specifically identified Oakland County’s Criminal Justice Data Warehouse as one of its most effective tools for maintaining jail efficiencies

NIC determined that Oakland County had sufficient capacity but was not using it in the most efficient manner possible

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How did we help Oakland County manage these problems?

Built a complete data warehouse from the ground up, including everything from concept, to construction and testing, to implementation

Built in three phases based on subject area

Constructed a wide-range of reports based on business-user requirements–Many reports sent out automatically via email

Trained Oakland County’s staff to understand and query the data themselves on a limited basis (power users)

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Key Concept—Data Quality

Direct correlation between data quality and report quality

Integration of data between subject areas typically relies on one field

Bad data in that field = no data integration

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What we will do for Washtenaw County

Clear path to success

Interview business & technical staff

Agree on a vision for your reporting system

Design

Construct

Implement

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A Roadmap…

Aug

2006

Sep Oct Nov Dec Jan

2007

Feb Mar

Jail Management

CourtsManagement

CommunityCorrections

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Estimated ROI

Depending on Washtenaw’s specific implementation, the payback period for an investment like this could be three months or less

ROI for Oakland’s community corrections subject area: 7 days

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Next Steps

Next steps…

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Dataspace

122 South Main Street

Suite 320

Ann Arbor, MI 48104

Lorrie Garbarz ([email protected])

Alan Jackson ([email protected])

Benjamin Taub ([email protected])