More Community, Less Confinement: Spotlight on Kansas

COVID-19 created a new sense of urgency for probation and parole programs to meet their intended goal—keeping people out of prison. And from 2019 to 2020, the number of people admitted to prison due to supervision violations declined nationwide. Some states were already experiencing reductions in violation admissions and population prior to the pandemic. Discover some of the policy and programming changes Kansas made in response to the threat of COVID-19 and what changes they think should be carried forward.