After 30 years of research and progress in the field, community supervision agencies are well-versed in evidence-based practices (EBP). What is often overlooked or more difficult to do, however, is ensuring the fidelity of those practices—not just using them, but using them effectively—to have the greatest impact on reducing recidivism.
In 2020, the Indiana Department of Correction (DOC) embarked on a journey to do just that: administer the Correctional Program Checklist for Community Supervision Agencies (CPC-CSA) to do its part in turning the state’s recidivism rate on its head.