JSI’s Perspective

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BACKGROUND

Most stakeholders agree many justice and mental health systems in the United States are far from effective and they are extraordinarily expensive. In today’s systems, despite the

best efforts of thousands of talented and devoted justice and mental health systems professionals, as well as millions of dollars focused on research and daily operations:

• Thousands of individuals, disproportionately from minority communities, enter the justice systems daily as victims, accused, offenders, and their family

members – adversely affecting their lives and communities. Over 50% are mentally ill or drug addicted.

• Over 50% of incarcerated individuals reenter the system as offenders within five years.

• Thousands of individuals are frightened about their personal safety including students and educators, retailers and their customers, employers and their

employees, members of faith communities, and justice and mental health systems professionals.

On November 20, 2020, the Justice Systems Institute (JSI) was incorporated. On February 8, 2022, it was approved as a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit (www.jsi-global.org).JSI’s goal is to

partner with accountable leaders to assist in guiding the design and sustainable transformation of justice and mental health systems. JSI has focused initially on designing CJS

(Connecticut’s Community-Specific Justice & Mental Health System) and an implementation methodology to ensure its effective and sustainable success as a proof-of-concept

pilot.

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WHY CONNECTICUT AS A PILOT?

Connecticut is a small but diverse state that includes cities, suburbs, and rural and farming communities. Its leaders have been focused for decades

on ensuring the state’s justice and mental health systems are effective. Connecticut’s leaders’ efforts have produced important results

demonstrated in part by the 10-year reduction in the state’s prison population from approximately 20,000 to 10,000 and legislation focused on

minimizing tragedies related to firearms. Nevertheless, countless Connecticut leaders and taxpayers believe the state’s current justice and mental

health systems can be significantly improved, favorably impacting the lives of thousands.

CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES

Connecticut’s implementation successes can encourage others, and lead the way, as the State becomes a National role model for effective,

sustainable, community-specific justice and mental health systems.

Systematic transformation involving thousands of stakeholders is challenging but, it’s far from impossible. For example:

• In the early 1960s there were over five highway deaths for every 100 million miles driven, By mid-2000, the numbers of highway deaths

had been reduced by over 70%! Thousands of lives were saved as systems’ changes were implemented including seat belts, highway

redesigns and effective public education.*

• It was not until the late 1960s that EMS and 911 were launched. They have been continuously enhanced.

TODAY…

• It is hard to imagine no seat belts, EMS or 911. Those initiatives required millions $ from foundations and government agencies and

countless devoted leaders and subject matter experts.

• Millions $ are available in justice and mental health systems transformation funding from government agencies, corporations,

foundations, and philanthropy.

• Corporate, faith, and elected leaders, taxpayers, victims, accused, offenders, and their families, and justice and mental health systems

professionals, are pleading for improved effectiveness.

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PRIORITY INITATIVES & NEXT STEPS

Many elected and appointed government, business, and faith and community leaders have identified sound, systemic change

initiatives that will have a measurable, positive impact on the effectiveness of Connecticut’s justice & mental health systems.

Implementing those initiatives should be intensely managed as the highest priority when they can be linked to sound and reportable

performance metrics.

JSI encourages the initiatives listed on Page 5 also be considered as important 2023-2025 implementation priorities

1. STRENGTHEN TALENT…Optimize best practices involving recruiting, rewards, retention, scheduling, and benefits, and union contracting,

outsourcing, professionals’ workload, roles, budgeting, and monthly-lifetime professional and culture development. Focus immediately on police,

prosecutors, and public defenders.

2. OPTIMIZE TECHNOLOGY & INFORMATION SCIENCES…Leverage predictive analytics, paperless processes, geo-spatial intelligence,

broadband, real-time/interactive audio & video collaboration to anticipate, prevent, mitigate, and minimize dangerous incidents. Design, build, pilot,

prove, then bring to scale – Tech-Enabled Incident Guidance & Information Centers (IGICs), strengthening the effectiveness of Connecticut’s over

100 PSAP’s. Focus on designing and sustaining “paperless” processes and Homicide Prevention and Closure Management Systems (HPCM).

3. ENGAGE ALL STAKEHOLDERS…Ensure justice and mental health systems’ performance metrics are sound, understood and accepted by all

concerned including system professionals, elected and appointment government and faith leaders, taxpayers, journalists, employers, educators, victims,

accused, offenders and their families and friends.

4. LEVERAGE EFFECTIVE COMMUNITY POLICING & SCHOOL SAFETY…Strengthen school physical safety while establishing effective &

trusting relationships involving justice and mental health system professionals, youth, families, community organizations, educators, university

athletes, employers, and healthcare professionals. Expand the scope and impact of successful programs typified by Stratford’s PAL/PEP Program.

5. FOCUS ON MANAGING: INCIDENTS, VICTIMS, ACCUSED, OFFENDERS, SYSTEM PROFESSIONALS & THE LAW…Establish and

report performance objectives – rewarding accomplishments, and mitigating risks. Design, pilot, prove, then scale – more effective alternatives to

traditional cash-bail, pre-sentencing jail, solitary confinement, disruptive behavior during detention, probation and parole for adult men and women,

youth, the mentally ill and drug-addicted individuals. Design, build, pilot, prove, then bring to scale – technology-enabled Community Detention &

Development/Mentoring Centers (CDDCs) and expand the impact of Middlesex’s REP, post-detention mentoring program.

6. ENSURE JSI’S EFFECTIVENESS…Fund, manage and strengthen JSI’s professionals, processes, partners, infrastructure, and capacity to serve,

lead, and be trusted and effective. Establish a CJS Advisors Roundtable of Connecticut Thought Leaders.

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JSI Critical Thought Leaders - Exemplars

JSI is proud to thank and recognize over 150 Thought-Leaders, typified by the examplars listed on the following

pages, and the firms listed below. They have contributed thousands of hours pro bono developing JSI’s evolving

hypothesis focused on multi-year initiatives to strengthen justice and related mental health systems – beginning in

Connecticut as a pilot, proof-of-concept.

Many of the contributing professionals have devoted their professional lives to serving as justice and mental health

system leaders. Others have been victims, offenders, or accused. Several are senior consultants recognized as

strategy implementation professionals.

Accenture Ernst & Young IJIS Institute Mission Critical

Partners

Restorative Way Winbourne Consulting

APDS & HPG GWT Next Justice Systems

Institute (JSI)

NET@WORK Schenck Strategies Wormeli Consulting

AT&T’s FirstNet IBC Consultants Marsh Orr Group Stonecreek

Marketing

Dell IBM McCreighPartners RAND Urbahn Architects

The following professionals typify the Thought-Leaders critical to the evolving design of a more effective justice and mental health

system.

• Greg Akers...Retired SVP, Advanced Security Research and Governments at CISCO Systems – Cybersecurity

Consultant.

• General Sir Richard Barrons...Commander Joint Forces Command, UK. Responsible for 23,000 people worldwide

delivering intelligence, Special Forces.

• Hal Burlingame...Retired Senior Executive Advisor for AT&T Wireless, Human Resources & Communications. Prior,

headed global AT&T Human Resources organization.

• Dr. Joseph Cirasuolo...Co-Founder and Board Member of Justice Systems Institute (JSI) and Retired Executive

Director, Connecticut Association of Public School Superintendents, CAPSS and lifetime education leader.

• Dr. Art Deacon...Retired senior AT&T and Bell Labs Executive accountable for the firm’s disaster management.

Recognized by the FBI “for dedication and loyalty to the principles of freedom, and with special gratitude for

outstanding contributions to the FBI in its National Security/Counterterrorism Mission.

• Nick Donofrio...Retired IBM’s technology and innovation strategies leader from 1997 until his retirement in 2008. He

was Vice-Chairman of the IBM International Foundation, and also Vice-Chairman of the Board of Governors for the

IBM Academy of Technology.

• Tim Farrell...Justice Design Consultant and an experienced correctional professional with 35 years of experience

managing pre-trial detention and sentenced facilities. Served as Deputy Commissioner with New York City

Department of Corrections.

• Reed Harrison...Retired Senior Executive accountable for research at National Security Agency (NSA) and Senior

AT&T Executive accountable for research.

• Stephen Herbits...Former consultant to several Secretaries and Deputy Secretaries of Defense and part of the senior

team that recommended and helped implement the transition to the ALL-Volunteer Armed Force.

• John Hollywood...Leads RAND’s research services related to Criminal Justice and Public Safety.

• Bill Holodak...Co-Founder of the Justice Systems Institute (JSI). Serves as Interim Executive Director as well as

Associate Partner of McCreight Partners. Bill was CEO in several successful technology start-ups.

• Dr. Renee Hughes...CEO of The Hughes Group advising corporations to revitalize corporate culture. She was a trial

judge for more than 15 years handling complex civil and criminal cases, specializing in homicides, handling some of

Philadelphia’s most notorious cases. She founded the city’s mental health court and co-authored a book on witness

intimidation. She currently teaches at Villanova Law School. Renee was a JSI Board Member.

• Dan Jankowski…JSI Co-Founder and professional with decades of global experience developing and implementing

strategy – with his focus on stakeholder engagement.

• Hugh Lester PhDc...JSI Board member and Senior Executive with STV designing and planning jails, prisons,

courthouses, and other justice projects ranging from $1.5 million to $1.5 billion. He focuses on improving conditions

of confinement through architecture and security systems engineering.

• John McCreight...Co-Founder of Justice Systems Institute (JSI) and Founder and Chairman of McCreight Partners, a

global consulting firm specializing in strategy implementation serving business and government leaders in seven

sectors of the economy: national security, healthcare, technology, energy, information, education, and justice systems.

• Steve Mednick...A nationally recognized leader in the world of Public Safety and Integrated Justice. A Charter

Member, President and Member of the Board of Integrated Information and Justice Systems (IJIS) Institute.

• Jaime Pannone...A Co-Founder of Justice Systems Institute (JSI) and a lifetime education professional with a recent

emphasis on applying technology to enable remote learning.

• Dr. Leon Pintsov...JSI Board Member and an internationally recognized expert in the fields of systems science,

information security, applied cryptography, computer imaging and artificial intelligence.