BACKUS — Pretrial diversion packages paid dividends in Cass County, probation officers reported.
Cass County Probation Director Jim Schneider and Minnesota Division of Corrections District Supervisor Mark Smith gave annual studies Tuesday, April 19, to the Cass County Board.
Cass County began a pretrial launch program in 2015 and has been receiving $100,000 yearly for the previous seven years, which permits the county to rent a probation officer and grant evaluator. The objectives of this program are to facilitate defendant’s pretrial launch utilizing evidence-based practices, discount in non-compliant behaviors and facilitate need-based companies.
Cass County’s probation division screened 456 individuals in 2021 within the pretrial analysis program and ranked 203 of these to be doubtlessly excessive threat to reoffend, 153 at reasonable threat and 100 at low threat. The division accomplished referrals on 44 pretrial individuals who had been keen to handle their chemical dependency points and proceed to encourage individuals to handle their psychological well being, schooling, employment, housing and transportation obstacles, Schneider reported.
The biggest quantity of people that had pretrial bail hearings had been charged with drug offenses, adopted by a class for assaultive conduct/home/harassment.
By the numbersOf the 635 convicted adults county probation monitored for misdemeanor or gross misdemeanor offenses in 2021:
- 317 had been for DWI convictions,
- 99 for assaultive conduct/home/harassment,
- 85 for medicine (resulting from Cass County taking on supervision of all gross misdemeanor instances beforehand supervised by the Minnesota Division of Corrections),
- 37 for driving after cancellation/no insurance coverage/visitors,
- 34 for disturbing the peace,
- 26 for obstructing the authorized course of/falsely reporting crime/fleeing peace officer,
- 20 for theft/property harm/arson/negligent hearth,
- 12 for felony vehicular operation,
- 4 for underage consumption,
- one for weapons.
Of the 326 convicted juveniles county probation monitored in 2021:
- 62 had been for disturbing the peace,
- 49 for minor consumption,
- 47 for assaultive conduct/home/harassment,
- 37 for theft/property harm,
- 34 for visitors,
- 30 for medicine,
- 28 for obstructing the authorized course of/falsely reporting crime/fleeing peace officer,
- 14 for housebreaking,
- 12 for weapons,
- 4 for felony sexual conduct,
- three every for DWI and murder and,
- one every for felony vehicular operation, arson/negligent hearth and theft.
Cass County has a diversion program whereby first-time juvenile offenders can full a restorative justice program in lieu of going to courtroom. That program has had 53 juveniles efficiently full this system between from 2019 via 2021, with 5 of the 53 being adjudicated for a brand new offense, a 90% success charge.
The county’s wellness courtroom for repeat grownup DWI offenders since 2006 had a 13.7% recidivism charge, in contrast with a 34% recidivism charge for individuals who selected to not take part or failed to finish this system. Cass County acquired $102,530 throughout 2021 to help in the price of the operations for the wellness courtroom.
In 2021, Cass County had juveniles on digital residence monitoring for 369 days, down from 600 days in 2020, however adults on residence monitoring rose from 3,651 days in 2020 to 4,454 days in 2021.
County probation tracks shoppers for as much as three years after launch from probation to confirm recidivism charges.
Individuals ranked as excessive threat to reoffend by the probation officers truly had a 57% recidivism. These ranked reasonable threat had 27% recidivism. These ranked low threat had 18% recidivism. These ranked very low threat had 3% recidivism.
Shoppers on supervised launch monitored by Cass County Probation as of Dec. 31, 2021, confirmed decrease recidivism aside from the very low threat class the place there have been two re-arrests among the many 26 individuals on probation for a 7% recidivism charge.
Division of Corrections probation caseload for convicted felony offenders throughout 2021 included 590 for medicine, 328 for assaults/home/harassment, 199 for DWI, 178 for theft/property harm, 146 for obstructing the authorized course of/falsely reporting crime/fleeing peace officer, 85 for felony sexual conduct, 84 for housebreaking, 66 for disturbing the peace, 60 for weapons, 40 for driving after cancellation/no insurance coverage/visitors, 16 for felony vehicular operation, six for murder, 4 for theft, three for kidnapping and one for underage consumption/miscellaneous.
Schneider and Smith additionally introduced a brief video pn the Dodge-Fillmore-Olmsted Neighborhood Corrections’ method to probation, which will be considered at
www.youtube.com/embed/60TbR7isTRM?rel=0
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