Pew’s Public Safety Performance Project Brief

- February 22 2012

Pew’s Public Safety Performance Project has just released a brief that summarizes encouraging early results of a new performance incentive program in California.

California’s Probation Performance Incentive Funding Program, which took effect in 2010, rewards county probation departments for reducing recidivism by sharing with them about half of the savings that the state realizes by not having to incarcerate violators and repeat offenders. The brief highlights key outcome measures from the program and discusses next steps in California’s performance incentive funding program in light of the recent state-local prison realignment plan.