Date & Time: Monday, November 18, 2024 from 4:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. ET
Webinar Fee: Free to attend. Registration is required.
This is a FREE program is online only and will be recorded. Anyone who registers will receive a link to the video recordings for any session they are registered for.
CPCS has approved this program for 2.0 credit hours for the Criminal Defense Trial, Adult Post-Conviction, YAD Trial and Appeals, Parole and Medical Parole panels. Certificates will be emailed to all attendees who were logged onto the program for at least 80% of the program.
Faculty
Representative Christine Barber, Vice Chair, Joint Committee on the Judiciary
Hon. James Budreau, Superior Court
Hon. Heather Bradley, District Court
Hon. Michelle Fentress, District Court
Dara Drawbridge, PhD, UMass Chan Medical School, Department of Law and Psychiatry
Laureen LaFond, Senior Counselor, Bay State Community Services, Inc.
Vincent Lorenti, Esq., Executive Director, Massachusetts Probation Service Office of Community Corrections
Maria Wirtz, Former Client, Community Justice Support Center Quincy
Description
In January 2024, the research center, Boston Indicators reported that Massachusetts had the lowest incarceration rate in the United States at 172 per 100,000 people. In fact, the incarceration rate has declined faster in Massachusetts than anywhere else in America over the last decade. That said, around the world our allies continue to incarcerate far fewer people than we do, even in Massachusetts. In Canada the rate is 104 per 100,000, Germany 69, France 83, and England 130. Further, the impact of higher incarceration rates continues to fall disproportionately on communities of Color. Boston Indicators found that while incarceration decreased by 40% for Whites, it decreased by just 21% for Blacks.
Community Justice Support Centers are statutorily created facilities operated by the Massachusetts Probation Service for the express purpose of designing and implementing alternatives to incarceration. Cognitive behavioral treatment, education, career counseling, clinical case management, and community engagement opportunities at the Support Centers are informed by the latest science to ensure that people have real, safe, and effective opportunities to succeed in the community rather than after jail or prison.
Agenda
- Introduction.Context for Alternatives to Incarceration- Vincent Lorenti
- Keynote - Comments on CJ Reform from Rep. Christine Barber, Vice Chair, House Committee on the Judiciary
- Remarks. Science. Risk, Need, Responsivity and alternatives to incarceration for those at high risk for recidivism. - Dr. Dara Drawbridge
- Presentation.Community Justice Support Center Overview - Vincent Lorenti
- Panel Discussion.Where and when and stories of success - Hon. James Budreau, Hon. Heather Bradley, Hon. Michelle Fentress, Laureen Lafond, and Maria Wirtz
- Panel. Judges Bradley, Budreau, and Fentress; Laureen LaFond and Maria Wirtz