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Help Desk Home > Multnomah County OR

Multnomah County, OR, JDAI Model Site
Substantially reduced the disproportionate confinement of minority youth by sharply lowering the overall population in detention by 65 percent and targeted strategies aimed at reducing disparities. Those strategies included effective and culturally appropriate community-based alternatives, including shelter care, home detention, and a day reporting center. Multnomah developed an objective, culturally sensitive risk assessment instrument and created a seven person intake team to review each and every detention decision .The county expedited procedures to process cases, which reduced lengths of stay in detention, and implemented non-secure sanctions for probation violators. As a result the likelihood that an arrested youth will be detained is now about the same for all racial and ethnic groups

 

Multnomah County, Oregon
Rick Jensen, Detention Reform Coordinator
Jim Stegmiller, JDAI Consultant
Multnomah County Department of Community Justice
1404 N.E. 68th Avenue
Portland, OR 97213
(503) 988-5698
rick.k.jensen@co.multnomah.or.us
Multnomah County Department of Community Justice
JDAI Help Desk at the Pretrial Justice Institute, 927 15th Street, NW, 3rd Floor, Washington, DC 20005
Tel: 202-638-3080 x312 Fax: 202-347-0493 E-mail: jdaihelpdesk@pretrial.org