- Using an integrated statewide approach to community supervision, Alaska monitors lower risk offenders in the community and saves costly institutional beds for serious criminals.
- Program was rolled out successfully statewide.
Case Studies
Case studies may be searched by keyword, agency, location, product and more (i.e. Jail overcrowding, Johnson County, Indiana, BI ExacuTrack).
- The program provides an alternative to detention and a safe, effective strategy for juveniles reintegrating into the community after a period of institutionalization.
- The program supports the philosophy and practice of restorative justice, and is consistent with a best practices approach to detain only those youth who present the greatest risk of injury to others.
Broward County, FL Pretrial Services
Broward County Expands its Pretrial Services Program
- Faced with jail overcrowding, County decides to expand Pretrial Services. They now monitor about 1,000 defendants on BI electronic monitoring technologies, including GPS tracking.
- For every 100 inmates diverted to community supervision, the County estimates a $4 million annual savings.
CEDARS Juvenile Justice Services
Nebraska Juvenile Supervision Program Incorporates GPS Tracking
- The organization delivers a wide range of juvenile services, including a “Tracker program” that uses GPS tracking technology for certain juveniles who present more risk.
- Between 20 and 30 juveniles are supervised using GPS which promotes accountability to conditions of release and is a cost-effective sanction for probation violations.
- BI supervised more than 800 clients with various electronic monitoring systems for Clackamas County in 2009, and an offender pay component helped to defray program costs.
- Two Clackamas programs that have high success rates of approximately 9 of 10 individuals completing the program successfully.
- NW Ohio's offender funded EM program has significantly reduced jail overcrowding and prevented unconditional release of offenders into the community.
- Results: More than 950 offenders have been diverted from incarceration in 2006 and more than 9,000 offenders since 1997.
Johnson County, IN Community Corrections
Johnson County Moves Offenders from EM to GPS Monitoring
- More than half of offenders supervised by Johnson County Community Corrections are supervised with GPS and pay $15 per day, reducing the overall taxpayer cost of the GPS program.
- Results: More than 120 offenders are monitored with GPS today, saving an additional $6,000 per day in jail costs.
Cumberland County, PA Adult Probation Department
County Uses GPS Tracking to Monitor DUI Offenders
- The County was faced with rising prison population, budget deficits and projected tax increases.
- Results: Active GPS has saved 14,000 bed-days at the county prison in the first 15 months after implementation.
Delaware Department of Correction
Advanced Technology Supports Delaware’s Home Confinement Program
- About 400 offenders are supervised daily in the Home Confinement Program using a mix of electronic monitoring technology.
- Delaware recently added Global Positioning System(GPS) tracking to its Home Confinement Program which helps reduce prison overcrowding, lower costs.
- A 2009 report found the county crime rate dropped from about 75 crimes per 1,000 residents in 2006 to about 55 crimes per 1,000 residents in 2008. This drop occurred while the statewide crime rate increased steadily.
- By adding a Day Reporting Center, and building a smaller jail, Franklin County saved $10M in jail construction costs and more than $3M annually in extra operational costs.
- 90% of offenders involved in the home detention program successfully complete conditions of release.
- Offenders pay for electronic monitoring, reducing program operational costs.
- Outsourcing electronic monitoring supervision allows local officials to focus on the caseload, not the equipment
- The electronic monitoring program offers a court-sanctioned option for nonviolent offenders while ensuring they focus on making positive decisions.
- The program boasts an 88% offender completion rate and offenders pay electronic monitoring fee, saving valuable taxpayer dollars.
- The State partners with BI to operate eight reentry centers targeted at high-risk parolees and to monitor over 2,800 offenders using a mix of electronic monitoring equipment.
- Recidivism has dropped from 54.6% to 51.8% over a three-year period, a significant drop that yields millions in savings each year.
Johnson County, IN Community Corrections
Johnson County Moves Offenders from EM to GPS Monitoring
- Offenders pay an electronic monitoring fee reducing the cost to taxpayers substantially.
- More than 100 offenders are monitored with the BI ExacuTrack® GPS system daily
- The Program supervises between 140 and 160 offenders and has had a daily successful completion rate of approximately 90% since inception.
- An average of 53,000 days of incarceration is avoided and $4.5M saved annually as a result of the electronic monitoring program.
- The Pretrial Services program has supported the Superior Court for more than 25 years and approximately 2,200 defendants are involved in the program per month.
- The agency employs a mix of supervision monitoring technologies and services to offer the court options for defendant release.
- Juveniles and 18-to-25 year old offenders are directed to intensive supervision and evidence-based programming with electronic monitoring.
- Merced County won 2009 Challenge Grant award from California State Association of Counties for setting up this program.
- The program has monitored more than 130,000 offenders since it began more than 20 years ago.
- The program helps reduce costs and enhance community safety.
- BI has supplied the department with compliance technologies and support since 1987.
- Unique program works with both jail inmates and community supervised offenders to help reduce pressure on jail long term
- After one year, three-quarters of participants were employed or in school full time while still going to the center
- The State Parole Board contracts with BI to operate Day Reporting Centers in Atlantic City, Elizabeth, Perth Amboy and Neptune City which together supervise about 300 high-risk offenders daily.
- Supervision and services have been provided to more than 6,500 high-risk clients since the first DRC was opened in Elizabeth in 1998.