West Virginia
West Virginia Initiatives
In partnership with West Virginia state leaders, the CSG Justice Center is working on several key criminal justice initiatives to increase public safety, including Stepping Up and Justice Reinvestment.

The latest COVID-19 developments and resources for governments officials.
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Justice Reinvestment is a data-driven approach to improve public safety, reduce corrections…
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Many reentry operations reported concerns about keeping their doors open, reporting cash-flow…
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Policymakers, corrections officials, practitioners, and other leaders plan to commemorate Second Chance…
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The U.S. Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) has announced…
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Governors from West Virginia, Arkansas, and North Dakota recently pointed to criminal…
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Leading a statewide effort to reform criminal justice policies can be daunting…
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The Council of State Governments (CSG) Justice Center partners with the National…
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Charged with supporting and providing technical assistance to problem-solving courts in their…
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In 2012, West Virginia’s governor and legislative leaders faced some dire challenges.…
Read MoreWhile crime and incarceration rates in New Hampshire are low, a large portion of the incarcerated population has…
Read MoreOn November 3, 2022, the New Hampshire Governor’s Commission on Mental Illness and the Correction System met for…
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While crime and incarceration rates in New Hampshire are low, a large portion of the incarcerated population has an identified mental illness or substance use disorder, and behavioral health needs are a driver of jail incarceration and supervision revocations to prison.
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On November 3, 2022, the New Hampshire Governor’s Commission on Mental Illness and the Correction System met for the third time to review preliminary findings from the county jail data analysis conducted by CSG Justice Center staff.
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On December 29, 2022, President Joe Biden signed a $1.7 trillion omnibus spending package for Fiscal Year 2023. Among other administration priorities, the omnibus spending bill funds various state and local justice system grant programs within the U.S. Department of Justice.
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The new initiative will place data analysts in residence at state departments of corrections. The analysts will help those agencies develop their data analysis capacity and increase the utility of data for decision-making while also building the corrections analyst workforce.
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