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Views from the Field

“Hennepin County, like many urban centers, has large numbers of drug-related arrestees each month. …Researchers at TRI worked closely with us to develop a web-based triage system suited to our needs … RANT has assisted in streamlining our operations and is yielding useful empirical evidence about our arrestee population and how we might best serve them … It has been a pleasure to partner so effectively and congenially with academic researchers to make practical real-world improvements to our work. The TRI scientists and IT staff are responsive to our needs and questions, deal directly and quickly with issues that arise, and do so in a comfortable and professional manner.”

- Chief Judge Lucy Wieland; Thomas Merkel, Director, Community Corrections & Rehabilitation
Hennepin County, MN

“For nearly a decade TRI has worked closely with our drug court program to identify subgroups of clients who respond differently to various types and amounts of services. Their extensive program of research has demonstrated that drug court outcomes are greatly influenced by the match between offenders’ risks and needs and their specific treatment and monitoring plans. As a result of these important findings, we have greatly improved the success rates of our clients. I was very pleased to learn that TRI has developed a simple tool that will allow other courts to use scientifically-based risks and needs assessment to improve their dispositions and placements.”

- Judge Jay James, New Castle County, DE; Court of Common Pleas