Tompkins County Criminal Justice and Jail Assessment Project

Reports

CGR's report "An Assessment of the Future of the Tompkins County Jail" is available to the public for review. The document is lengthy at over 200 pages. It can be downloaded below as the entire document, the 10 page executive summary and by individual chapters. The report was presented to the Jail Study Committee on July 20, 2017 in the Tompkins County Legislature Chambers.

An Assessment of the Future of the Tompkins County Jail | Full Report

• Executive Summary
• I. Introduction
• II. Demographic Profile of Tompkins County
• III. Relationship of Arrests to Jail Admissions
• IV. Trends in Jail Population and Inmate Characteristics
• V. Factors Impacting on Jail Census
• VI. Conditions, Services and Programs within the Jail
• VII. ATI and Community-Based Programs Impacting on the Jail
• VIII. Options for Future Consideration
• IX. Future Projections
• X. Conclusions and Recommendations
• Appendix A - Additional Options for Consideration
• Appendix B - Groups with Which CGR Met During the Study

Project Status Report – April 2017

Select Correspondence and Meeting Summaries

Note: The following information is shared publically only with the explicit permission of the authors or participants. Other letters and notes are shared only with the project team because they were not intended for a broad audience.

• May 11, 2017 – Presentation to Jail Study Committee on Mental Health in the Jail by Sharon MacDougall, Deputy Commissioner of Mental Health Services |
• Discussion of Health Services in Tompkins County Jail – Interview of Evelyn Goldsbury by Legislator Anna Kelles on 10/13/16.
• Corrections Officers of Tompkins County
• URO-CGR Meeting Notes

Study Background

• CGR Technical Proposal
• CGR Presentation to Jail Study Committee
• Jail Study Committee members

Prior Tompkins County Studies

• 2016 CJATI Reentry Program
• 2014 Jail Alternatives Task Force
• Courts Task Force - Final Report
• Full Proceedings of Tompkins Municipal Courts Task Force
• Ithaca Plan