The new york city (NYC) supervised release program supervises over 22,000 cases a year

The U.S. Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) awarded a $899,995 Project Grant to the New York City Mayor's Office of Criminal Justice to implement the Compliance Care Van, a supervision enhancement program under the Swift, Certain, and Fair (SCF) Supervision Program (CFDA 16.828). The program aims to address barriers to successful supervision for a target population of participants aged 35 and older living in Southeast Brooklyn, who have higher rates of failure to appear in court, increased likelihood of arrest, and lower compliance compared to other Brooklyn participants. The Compliance Care Van is designed to make engagement easier for this subpopulation, enhance access to incentives, and provide additional social services resources in their neighborhood, with the goal of reducing accessibility barriers and improving compliance with supervision in accordance with SCF principles. The project will be evaluated through an ongoing partnership with MDRC.

NYC faces certain barriers to successful supervision with certain subpopulations, particularly participants whoare 35 years old or older and living in southeast brooklyn. This target population has higher rates of failure to appear in court, are more likely to be arrested, and have lower compliance rates than other brooklyn participants. To address this issue, the NYC mayors office of criminal justice proposes to implement the compliance care van as a supervision enhancement through their partnership for pretrial services with the center for justice innovation. Given distance and mobility barriers and the age of this subpopulation, this mobile enhancement is designed to make engagement easier for participants, enhance access to tangible and intangible incentives that have been built into the existing incentive/sanction model, and brings access of additional social service resources to their neighborhood. The goal is to reduce accessibility barriers and enhance compliance with supervision in southeast brooklyn in accordance with the principles of SFC. NYC proposes to have this work evaluated through an ongoing partnership with mdrc.