Local Control
ApproachAdult Redeploy Illinois sites operate as “laboratories” around the state, testing what works in community corrections with different target populations (e.g., those with substance use or mental health disorders) in different settings, based on research and intimate knowledge of local conditions. Each site is unique, providing rich peer learning opportunities across sites and offering policy makers information on a variety of locally designed and controlled diversion programs.
The goals of Adult Redeploy Illinois (ARI) are to:
- Reduce crime and recidivism in a way that is cost effective for taxpayers.
- Provide financial incentives to counties or judicial circuits to create effective local-level evidence-based services.
- Encourage the successful local supervision of eligible individuals and their reintegration into the locality.
- Perform rigorous data collection and analysis to assess program outcomes.
In pursuit of these goals, local jurisdictions have discretion how they use ARI funding to develop or expand capacity to divert people from prison into community-based supervision and services. ARI sites operate as “laboratories” around the state, testing what works in community corrections with different target populations (e.g., those with substance use or mental health disorders) in different settings, based on research and intimate knowledge of local conditions. Each site is unique, providing rich peer learning opportunities across sites and offering policy makers information on a variety of locally designed and controlled diversion programs.