Public Safety Performance, Pew Center on the States
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Headquarters Location: Washington, DC
Founded: 2006
Mission: The Public Safety Performance Project helps states advance fiscally sound, data-driven policies and practices that protect public safety, hold offenders accountable and control corrections costs. The Project was launched in 2006 by The Pew Center on the States, a division of The Pew Charitable Trusts that works with donors to advance state policies that serve the public interest. Pew is an independent public charity that takes a nonpartisan, research-based approach to subjects as varied as health, the environment, the economy, and state government performance.
Tags:
research, policy reform, analysis, community supervision, fiscal impact, mass incarceration, probation and parole, sentencing and courts
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Leadership
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Leadership
Adam Gelb.
Adam Gelb has been involved in crime control and prevention issues for the past 23 years as a journalist, congressional aide and senior state government official. Adam began his career as a reporter, covering crime and drugs for more than four years at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. He staffed the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee during negotiations and final passage of the 1994 Crime…
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Financial Data
Overhead Ratio:
7.60%
Total Revenue:
$303,511,412
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Contact Info
E-Mail:
Phone:
202-552-2000
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Address:
901 E St. NW, 10th Floor
Washington, DC 20004-1409, USA
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Story:
Over the past two decades, spending on corrections has jumped from $11 billion to more than $50 billion. It's the second fastest growing state budget category behind Medicaid–and one out every 100 adults is now behind bars. But for all of this spending, we are not getting an adequate return in terms of public safety.
In 2006, the Pew Center on the States launched the Public Safety Performance Project to help states advance fiscally sound, data-driven policies and practices in sentencing and corrections that protect public safety, hold offenders accountable and control corrections costs.
Expert Reviews of Public Safety Performance, Pew Center on the States
Evidence of Impact Summary:
The Pew Charitable Trust has been influential in raising awareness about mass incarcerations and has provided well-researched policy recommendations to public officials with strategies specifically tailored to changing the policies in conservative states.See expert comments.
Organization Strengths Summary:
According to experts, the Pew Charitable Trust has largely been successful because of the bipartisan and unbiased nature of its reports and its ability to maintain the respect of experts in the field.See expert comments.
Areas for Improvement Summary:
Experts have noted that the Pew Charitable Trust can improve by paying greater attention to collaborative efforts with grassroots and local movements and by expanding its research focus.See expert comments.
Expert Comments: Evidence of Impact
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Influential Policy Recommendations |
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Great work in recent years on convincing state governments to downsize prison populations. Some of the best policy work done in the US. | ||
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PPSP is having a tremendous impact in conservative states, getting buy-in from state legislatures and the governor, and doing the kind of cost data analysis that is required to convince conservatives to cut corrections budgets. They are able to then marshal political will to put forth reform bills. | ||
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Their justice reinvestment strategy is developing expertise and actual reforms within a wide range of states across the country. They have dramatically increased the number of states we can point to who are getting smarter with their corrections policy and spending | ||
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Pew Charitable Trust has been a significant player in reforming state criminal justice laws by working with a broad spectrum of criminal justice stakeholders in select states. | ||
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They have helped various states enact corrections reforms | ||
Raises Public Awareness |
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Pew has raised awareness about the magnitude of mass incarceration. | ||
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Their research has changed the public debate about mass incarceration. | ||
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They are not afraid to support faith-based initiatives, including those run by African-American and Latino faith leaders. | ||
Expert Comments: Organization Strengths
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Well-Respected and Influential Organization |
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Pew Charitable Trust has been successful because of its issue expertise, its capacity to appeal to bi-partisan stakeholders, and its research-based nature. They work an "inside game" to reform criminal justice system by engaging criminal justice professionals to support change from within. | ||
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This group is perceived as unbiased, evidenced by their research being frequently cited by groups across the political spectrum. They are also timely, as they've gone after the mass incarceration issue at a time when it has some traction with conservatives. | ||
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They have good outreach and good materials. | ||
High Credibility |
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The fact that they are primarily a research outfit gives them cover as a non-advocacy group. | ||
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This group compiles excellent research and has a high profile which provides mainstream credibility. | ||
Expert Comments: Areas for Improvement
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Sometimes campaigns from national groups working in states can intentionally limit their involvement to a time frame that may not allow for momentum to build or implementation to occur. | ||
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They could use greater leadership on solutions. | ||
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PSPP keeps advocacy groups that have been a part of the criminal justice reform scene locally out of the process, and this is often to the detriment of implementation of reforms. | ||
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They need to get better about developing relationships with groups on the ground in the states they work and figure out how their work leaves lasting infrastructure. | ||
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They could expand their research in the area of collateral costs of incarceration. | ||
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They could take a broader view of corrections. | ||
Leadership
Adam Gelb
Project Director, Public Safety Performance Project
Project Director, Public Safety Performance Project
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