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Tompkins County ATI working group to map arrest-to-incarceration flow, gather data and hold public forum
Summary
The Tompkins County alternatives-to-incarceration working group agreed to map the arrest-to-incarceration process, compile targeted jail and parole data, convene provider focus groups and delay a public forum until the group has materials to share.
A Tompkins County alternatives-to-incarceration (ATI) working group on Tuesday said it will build detailed flowcharts, collect targeted jail data and convene provider focus groups before holding a public meeting designed to gather community ideas for safely reducing the county jail population.
Moderator and facilitator (speaker 3) told the group that a recommendation from the CJ ATI meeting was to add a short paragraph describing each ATI program so everyone “is familiar with…what they do,” and asked volunteers to clean and complete a draft inventory of programs and services. “It was suggested that we add a paragraph or so for each of the ATI's to explain exactly what they do,” the facilitator said.
Why it matters: participants described two separate problems driving the jail…
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