What is involved in replicating the JDAI model?
JDAI is comprehensive model and true replication involves full-blown detention system reform. That means that (1) policy makers will establish an inter-agency collaborative to plan and assess reform strategies, (2) rely on accurate, timely data for policy, program and practice decisions, (3) develop and utilize objective criteria and screening instruments to guide admission decisions, (4) implement new or enhanced non-secure alternatives to detention, (5) introduce case processing changes to reduce length of stay and expedite the resolution of cases, (6) develop strategies to deal with warrant, VOP and “awaiting placement” cases that often end up in detention, (7) assess, improve and continuously monitor conditions of confinement in your secure facility, and (8) develop approaches to reduce racial disparities in the use of secure detention. Details regarding all of these strategies can be found in the Pathways to Juvenile Detention Reform. Why would a jurisdiction be interested in purs
