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Nagy lauded for strong probation reforms in Travis County

Bernice Yeung at Miller-McCune new service has a profile of Travis County probation director Geraldine Nagy, featuring strong probation reforms in her department which have become a national model ("New Conditions of Probation," April 13). Here's a taste from the story:Within her first year, Nagy had launched what was initially dubbed the Travis County Experiment, an ambitious effort to integrate evidence-based practices into every aspect of the county?s probation department. Over the past four years, the department has standardized the way it evaluates offenders, tailored supervision to the specific risks they pose and reworked the way that officers interact with them.In 2009, the department completed the last phase of the experiment ? statistical evaluation ? and the results were encouraging...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on April 14, 2010 (boomark / email).