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District of Columbia: Pretrial Services Agency

The program gathers and presents risk information about newly arrested defendants in the District of Columbia to ensure they do not engage in criminal activity and return to court for trial. By law, the Federal government fully funds several District criminal justice agencies.

Rating

What This Rating Means

PERFORMING
Moderately Effective

In general, a program rated Moderately Effective has set ambitious goals and is well-managed. Moderately Effective programs likely need to improve their efficiency or address other problems in the programs' design or management in order to achieve better results.
  • The program conducts a risk and needs assessment on each defendant which has demonstrated to be an essential component of case planning and management.
  • The program has two long-term outcome measures that directly reflect the program's mission.
  • The program has eleven annual measures with baselines and targets.

Improvement Plan

About Improvement Plans

We are taking the following actions to improve the performance of the program:

  • Partnering with others to conduct future independent evaluations of the impact of substance abuse treatment and/or supervision on rearrest and failure to appear in court outcome measures.

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