Statistics on Smartphone-Based Solutions
Studies have shown that individuals who participate in incarceration alternatives achieve better outcomes than those who serve time in a corrections facility.
Studies have shown that individuals who participate in incarceration alternatives achieve better outcomes than those who serve time in a corrections facility. Corrisoft’s Alternative to Incarceration via Rehabilitation (AIR®) program provides community supervision agencies with smartphone-based solutions designed to help facilitate detention alternatives.
Community supervision best practices have been shown to prove quite effective at delivering successful outcomes. Corrisoft’s AIR® program simplifies an agency’s efforts to implement and execute the methods that have been proven to deliver better results. Furthermore, AIR® supports the use of evidence-based practices and makes it easy for agencies to track and report results.
Graduated Sanctioning
According to NADCP best practices, Treatment Courts should use the motivational tools of incentives and sanctions to retain participants and to optimize their chances for success.1 In addition, Treatment Courts that levy longer-term jail sanctions have worse outcomes than those using shorter-term jail sanctions.
In Missouri’s 13th Judicial District, Judge Casey Clevenger uses the AIR® program’s multiple smartphone-based solutions to deliver sanctions in lieu of jail. In her district’s first 16 months of using AIR®, Judge Clevenger used the program as an incarceration alternative for 65 participants, and 43 (66%) of those participants graduated successfully
COMMUNICATION AND ACCOUNTABILITY DRIVE SUCCESS
Individuals awaiting trial account for over 60% of the country’s entire prison population and serve as the major contributor to jail overcrowding. Consistent communication with pretrial defendants and treatment 13th Judicial, MO graduation rate for those assigned AIR® in lieu of jail court participants has been shown to improve court appearance and successful completion rates. A primary goal of pretrial programs is to ensure participants return to court, and numerous studies show court reminders can significantly increase court appearance rates for defendants on pretrial release.
With the help of Corrisoft’s AIR® Check-In App court reminder notification feature, Seminal Co., FL Pretrial realized a 94% successful court appearance rate for 2018.
For 2017, prior to using AIR®, the Seminole Co., FL pretrial program recorded an 80% successful completion rate. While using AIR® over the past year, the Seminole Co., FL pretrial program has grown its successful completion rate to 90%.
In treatment court settings, consistent communication between the agency and participants also positively impacts overall completion rates. While using AIR®, the Veterans court in Harnett Co., NC experienced an increase in successful completion rates each of the last three years.
CONSISTENT CONTACT INFLUENCES COMPLIANCE
As recommended by NADCP best practices, good communication is important for any successful team effort, and this is particularly true of Treatment Court. In regards to effectively influencing compliance behavior, communication about participant activities must be quick and accurate. Unlike most monitoring programs, AIR® is a smartphone-based spectrum of solutions designed to facilitate increased communication between agencies and their participants. In fact, agencies using the AIR® program have some form of contact with their participants an average of once a day. The ability to maintain direct communication with participants and defendants on a consistent basis helps improve compliance.
In Daytona Beach, FL program, officers use AIR® solutions to contact their participants up to two times per day, and as a result, their successful completion rate increased 96% from 2017 to 2018
COst savings
According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the annual cost of mass incarceration in the United States is $81 billion.5 Not only are community-based supervision programs a fraction of the cost of incarceration, but they also tend to have higher success rates.
Due to jail overcrowding, Surry Co., NC has been sending pretrial defendants to neighboring counties for incarceration and paying $40 a day. The county implemented the AIR® program as an alternative to incarceration, and preliminary results estimate an annual savings of $300,000
Sources: Drug Court Review, Vol VIII, Issue 1, Best Practices in Drug Courts, National Drug Court Institute, pg 124, Drug Court Review, Vol VIII, Issue 1, Best Practices in Drug Courts, National Drug Court Institute, pg 124, Pretrial Justice Institute4Drug Court Review, Vol VIII, Issue 1, Best Practices in Drug Courts, National Drug Court Institute, pg 24, United States Bureau of Justice