New York City Mayor's Office of Criminal Justice FY24 Community Supervision Strategies

The New York City (NYC) Supervised Release program supervises over 22,000 cases a year. NYC faces certain barriers to successful supervision with certain subpopulations, particularly participants who are 35 years old or older and living in southeast Brooklyn. This target population has higher rates of failure to appear in court, are more likely to be arrested, and have lower compliance rates than other Brooklyn participants. To address this issue, the NYC Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice proposes to implement the Compliance Care Van as a supervision enhancement through their partnership for pretrial services with the Center for Justice Innovation. Given distance and mobility barriers and the age of this subpopulation, this mobile enhancement is designed to make engagement easier for participants, enhance access to tangible and intangible incentives that have been built into the existing incentive/sanction model, and brings access of additional social service resources to their neighborhood. The goal is to reduce accessibility barriers and enhance compliance with supervision in southeast Brooklyn in accordance with the principles of SFC. NYC proposes to have this work evaluated through an ongoing partnership with MDRC.