Adult Justice

The SAJE Center seeks to accelerate justice for Washington State’s most marginalized adult populations. Through the study of adult justice mechanisms, SAJE’s work describes and addresses solutions to local and state criminal justice needs using a combination of research evidence and technical assistance. SAJE collaborates with state, regional, and community organizations to describe system goals and needs, examine evidence based programming initiatives, and develop tools to assist local practitioners. Please explore this page to learn more about SAJE’s specific projects committed to advancing adult justice.

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Law Enforcement and Racial/Ethnic Disparity in Arrests
Law Enforcement and Racial/Ethnic Disparity in Arrests

SAJE researchers are partnering with Michael Babb from UW's Dept of Geography to better understand arrest disparity in Washington State. The results will help community members, advocates, and justice system officials understand and address local levels of disparity as well as help state policymakers and others who seek advancement of equal justice in Washington.

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Department of Health (DOH) Court-Involved Mortality Study
Department of Health (DOH) Court-Involved Mortality Study

SAJE researchers are partnering with the Washington Department of Health (DOH) to examine mortality and causes of death for court involved individuals in addition to possible connections between mortality, cause of mortality, race/ethnicity, gender, frequency and type of court involvement, and age of first court contact.

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Swift and Certain
Swift and Certain

Washington State Department of Corrections’ (WADOC) community supervision policy underwent a substantive transformation in 2012. WADOC developed Swift and Certain (SAC), which was modeled after the HOPE program in Hawaii.

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Housing Voucher Program
Housing Voucher Program

In Washington State, it had been standard practice to detain prison inmates beyond their earned release date (ERD) until they could demonstrate they could secure suitable housing arrangements. But the Washington State Department of Corrections endeavored to alter this policy by developing the Washington State Housing Voucher Program (HVP).

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