CEPP Welcomes Erica King to Our NRCJIW Team

CEPP is thrilled to welcome new Senior Manager Erica King to our team! Ms. King will direct and manage gender justice initiatives that are part of CEPP’s National Resource Center on Justice-Involved Women (NRCJIW). She will focus on addressing the unique needs of impacted women across the criminal justice system, including pretrial, sentencing, corrections, and community supervision.

For much of Ms. King’s career, she has focused on promoting gender and racial equity and data-driven practices across criminal justice and education settings. Before joining CEPP, Ms. King was the Senior Policy Associate at the University of Southern Maine’s Catherine Cutler Institute and a Senior Associate with Orbis Partners. She is an alumnus of the Applied Leadership Network of the Juvenile Justice Strategy Group at the Annie E. Casey Foundation, a member of the international Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers (MINT), and an adjunct social work and humanities faculty at Colby College.

We are so pleased to have her on board!

CEPP Is Building Pretrial Support for Justice-Involved Women

With support from Apple’s Racial Equity and Justice Initiative, CEPP will be examining the needs of women who are detained pretrial or placed on pretrial supervision and analyzing whether the current model of pretrial support adequately enhances their pretrial success.

We are excited to begin this work in 2023 to better understand the impact of pretrial detention and supervision on women—particularly Black and Brown women—and focus on more effective and less harmful pretrial diversion and support options that can help women succeed and potentially avoid incarceration.

CEPP Looks at Indiana as a Case Study for Evidence-Based Decision Making

Over the course of a dozen years, 28 multidisciplinary policy teams have convened across five states in an effort to improve their systems of justice through the Evidence-Based Decision Making (EBDM) initiative. We are excited to share a case study—prepared for the National Institute of Corrections in October 2022—from one of those teams. 

CEPP has served as Indiana’s partner in building and delivering an array of technical assistance resources to support the EBDM initiative in Indiana’s 92 counties. Sustaining the EBDM Model: The Indiana Story documents Grant County’s accomplishments, including what one circuit court judge called “a culture of collaborative decision making in the justice system.”