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Procedural Justice in Community Supervision
SESSION INFO
Tuesday, January 7, 2020
11:15 AM - 12:15 PM
Session Type: Workshop
Long before core correctional practices and evidence-based practices, effective community supervision professionals knew that building trust and rapport with individuals under supervision was key and that sanctions and rewards alone were often insufficient to engage and spark change with many supervisees. Procedural justice provides a robust research framework for how trust is built and may be a powerful enhancement to agencies that have made other investments in evidence-based strategies and are seeking further improvements to supervisee compliance. The Center for Court Innovation, in partnership with the Urban Institute, the American Probation and Parole Association, and Arnold Ventures, has developed and piloted a new training curriculum on the topic called Procedural Justice in Community Supervision. The training was implemented with 50 officers at Georgia’s Department of Community Supervision in Fall 2019 and evaluation results are forthcoming in 2020. This session will demonstrate and explore the training content broadly as well as sample exercises and discussions about the implementation of procedural justice practices. Session participants will also be invited to advise on further development of the curriculum, including how procedural justice practices can be distinguished from and implemented alongside core correctional practices in ways that are complementary.
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SESSION PRESENTERS
Caitlin Flood
Senior Policy Specialist, Center for Court Innovation
Caitlin is a senior program manager on the training and technical assistance team. In this role, she provides consulting and training services to jurisdictions on the topics of procedural justice and problem-solving justice, including support of the 2018 Community Court Grant Program. Before joining the Center, Ms. Flood worked on securing grant funding and developing reentry programs at The Fortune Society, a reentry non-profit in Queens serving individuals with justice involvement. Ms. Flood began her legal career as a public defender at the Office of the Public Defender, Hudson County Trial Region (NJ), representing individuals facing felony charges. She holds a B.A. in Government & Law and Philosophy from Lafayette College and a J.D. from the New York University School of Law.
Megan Foster
, American Probation and Parole Association
Megan Foster is a Program Analyst with the American Probation and Parole Association. In this role, she manages and works on a variety of APPA’s grant-funded projects. These projects range from training and technical assistance to research and evaluation of community supervision programs. Her projects have included workforce and workload issues, tribal issues, victims’ issues in community supervision, justice reform and implementation of evidence-based practices. Prior to coming to APPA, she worked as a direct practitioner and program manager in victims’ services and reentry programs. She has specialized experience working in reentry with women and families as well as training and implementation of trauma-informed practices and programs. Megan received her Master’s in Social Work from Washington University in St. Louis.
Emily LaGratta
Principal, LaGratta Consulting LLC
Emily is the deputy director of training and technical assistance and director of procedural justice initiatives. In this role, she provides consulting services to jurisdictions and develops practitioner resources on a variety of topics. She helps oversee the Problem-Solving Justice Initiative and its Community Court Grant Program in partnership with the Bureau of Justice Assistance at the U.S. Department of Justice. Emily also leads the Center's technical assistance efforts on the topic of procedural justice and has served as the project manager for the Improving Courtroom Communications project. She provides and coordinates training, site assessments, and site-based implementation efforts for jurisdictions interested in improving litigant perceptions of fairness. Before joining the technical assistance team, she was on the planning team for several New York-based initiatives, including the Brownsville Community Justice Center and Brooklyn Justice Initiatives. She is a graduate of Pomona College and the University of Wisconsin Law School.
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