Background:
The criminal justice reforms that Utah passed in 2015 through H.B. 348 were the result of an extensive planning and analysis process bringing together stakeholders across the system in 2014, in consultation with the Pew Charitable Trusts’ Public Safety Performance Project and other partners through the Justice Reinvestment Initiative (JRI).
The format of this report changed with last year’s report (see 2023 report) to more directly target updates on the five original goals of JRI (outlined in CCJJ’s 2014 Justice Reinvestment Report), as required in the modifications of CCJJ’s statute in 63M-7- 204(1)(w). In addition to the required content, this report continues to provide updates on key prison measures and more general crime indicator trends that demonstrate more broad and indirect effects of reform efforts, but more extensive background on the reforms and additional measures can be found in past reports (see 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023 annual reports).
As with previous reports, the reader can navigate within the report using internal links (shaded in gray), and there are external links provided to other reports, legislation, and other useful information (blue underlined text). The content of the report is organized around the five original goals of JRI, and each section provides important updates and dat of the report:
Goal Update 1: Ensure Oversight and Accountability
Goal Update 2: Focus Prison Beds on Serious and Violent Offenders
Goal Update 3: Strengthen Probation and Parole Supervision
Goal Update 4: Improve and Expand Treatment and Reentry Services
Goal Update 5: Support Local Corrections Systems
Other Updates: General Crime Indicators and Broad Effects of Reform
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