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What a Statewide Technology Failure Taught Me About Corrections Technology

What a Statewide Technology Failure Taught Me About Corrections Technology

When a GPS monitoring vendor's equipment failed across an entire state juvenile justice agency, I was the executive who managed the crisis. Here are the lessons every corrections technology company needs to hear.

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What a Successful Corrections Technology Rollout Taught Me About Getting It Right

What a Successful Corrections Technology Rollout Taught Me About Getting It Right

A vendor with no corrections experience built 121 agency-specific modifications and delivered a statewide rollout faster than anyone anticipated. Here are the three factors that made it work.

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Why the Best Technology Doesn't Always Win Government Contracts (And What to Do About It)

Why the Best Technology Doesn't Always Win Government Contracts (And What to Do About It)

Government procurement was designed to build roads, not evaluate technology. Understanding how those rules work and how to compete within them is one of the most important advantages a corrections vendor can have.

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When Due Diligence Is Not Enough: What Investors Get Wrong About Corrections Technology

When Due Diligence Is Not Enough: What Investors Get Wrong About Corrections Technology

Standard investment analysis misses what actually drives success and failure in the corrections technology market. The gaps in your due diligence process could be costing you more than you realize.

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What State Directors Get Wrong About Title II Compliance (And What It Costs Them)

What State Directors Get Wrong About Title II Compliance (And What It Costs Them)

Title II compliance is not a paperwork exercise. It is an operational discipline, and the agencies that get it right are the ones with the data systems and processes to prove it. A practitioner's perspective from both sides of the equation.

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A.I. in Juvenile Justice: What Agency Leaders Need to Know Before the Sales Pitch

A.I. in Juvenile Justice: What Agency Leaders Need to Know Before the Sales Pitch

Artificial intelligence is coming to juvenile justice whether agencies are ready or not. Before the next vendor walks through your door with a neural network and lofty promises, here is a practitioner's guide to the questions agency leaders should be asking, the risks that come with deploying A.I. in juvenile justice, and what to demand from any company selling an A.I. platform to your agency.

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The Punitive Backlash Is Coming for Your Reform Gains: What Juvenile Justice Leaders Can Do Now

The Punitive Backlash Is Coming for Your Reform Gains: What Juvenile Justice Leaders Can Do Now

Juvenile justice reform does not move in a straight line. A handful of high-profile incidents and a fast-moving news cycle can undo years of progress toward diversion and community-based services. Here is what agency leaders can do now to protect reform gains before the political pressure arrives.

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Agency Leadership in Juvenile Justice: The Ultimate High-Wire Act

Agency Leadership in Juvenile Justice: The Ultimate High-Wire Act

Advocates, courts, law enforcement, community groups, elected officials. Every juvenile justice agency leader answers to all of them at once. A practitioner's look at what it actually takes to hold that balance, and why the role is as thankless as it is high stakes.

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Talent, Trust, and Tough Calls: Building a High-Performing Juvenile Justice Agency Team

Talent, Trust, and Tough Calls: Building a High-Performing Juvenile Justice Agency Team

Every juvenile justice agency leader inherits a team, but rarely the right one. This post looks at where to find talent already inside the agency, how familiar outside hires can go wrong, and the harder call every leader eventually faces: knowing when someone is not the right fit, and what to do about it.

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From Gut Feeling to Ground Truth: Building a Data-Driven Juvenile Justice Agency

From Gut Feeling to Ground Truth: Building a Data-Driven Juvenile Justice Agency

Without reliable data, an agency leader is flying blind. A practitioner's look at what it takes to build a real data infrastructure, and why data is the first and best defense when a decision or policy is questioned.

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