About Redeploy Illinois
Adult Redeploy Illinois was established by the Crime Reduction Act (Public Act 96-0761) to provide financial incentives to local jurisdictions for programs that allow diversion of non-violent offenders from state prisons by providing community-based services. Grants are provided to counties, groups of counties, and judicial circuits to increase programming in their areas, in exchange for reducing the number of people they send to the Illinois Department of Corrections.

The Crime Reduction Act is based on the premise that crime can be reduced and the costs of the criminal justice system can be controlled by understanding and addressing the reasons why people commit crimes. It is also based on the premise that local jurisdictions (judicial circuits or counties) know best what resources are necessary to reduce crime. Rigorous evaluation processes with standardized performance measurements are required to confirm the effectiveness of services in reducing crime.

The Adult Redeploy Illinois program is an example of a national best practice called "performance incentive funding," which other states are adopting in different ways. Adult Redeploy Illinois is based on the successful juvenile model which has been operating since 2004 with positive results. In the first three years of the juvenile Redeploy Illinois program, four pilot sites reduced the number of youth sent to the Department of Juvenile Justice by 51 percent (well above the 25 percent goal), which represents potential youth incarceration cost avoidance to the state of nearly $19 million.

Results expected with Adult Redeploy Illinois include reduced prison overcrowding (based on other states' experiences, with no increase in crime); lowered cost to taxpayers ($24,899 a year for prison vs. less than $200 total for drug school for first offenders or $3,500 on average for drug treatment); an end to the expensive vicious cycle of crime and incarceration.

 
 
Latest News
2012 County-Level Data Now Available on the Adult Redeploy Illinois Website
June 2013

The Illinois Criminal Justice Authority has posted data through 2012 on Adult Redeploy Illinois (ARI) program-eligible individuals. Illinois counties can access this up-to-date data on the ARI website under the “Site Tools” tab. The data can assist continuing, new or potential ARI counties and judicial circuits to examine the ARI-eligible population currently sent to the Illinois Department of Corrections (IDOC), showing were diversion programs and interventions may be needed to reduce IDOC commitments of non-violent offenders while furthering the goals of ARI.

View the 2012 County-Level Data.

 
The National Criminal Justice Association Highlights Adult Redeploy Illinois
June 2013

The April 2013 justice bulletin of the National Criminal Justice Association featured the Adult Redeploy Illinois (ARI) program as a promising practice in a piece titled “Supporting Local Capacity by Promoting Alternatives to Incarceration.” The piece discusses the history and future of the program, as well as an identification of the initial pilot sites.

View the Bulletin
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Winnebago County Drug Court featured in Local News
June 2013

A May 15th Rockford Register Star article featured the recent Winnebago County Adult Drug Court graduation, which was the 31st of its kind in the program’s history. Winnebago County’s Adult Drug Court is an Adult Redeploy Illinois (ARI) site, in operation since 2006 and funded by ARI since October 2011. The article discusses the success of the drug court in assisting individuals with substance abuse issues to overcome addiction and criminal justice involvement to reclaim their lives.

View the Article.

 
Adult Redeploy Illinois FY14 Site Implementation RFP
May 2013

The Adult Redeploy Illinois Oversight Board is pleased to release a Request For Proposals (RFP) to bring on new implementation sites in FY14. The intent of this RFP is to grant funds to counties, judicial circuits, or parts of judicial circuits to expand alternatives to incarceration for non-violent offenders. The number and amount of new awards is contingent upon FY14 state funding appropriation levels. The deadline for applications is Friday, May 31, 2013. The grant period runs from July 1, 2013 through June 30, 2014.

Successful applicants will articulate how their proposals further the stated goals of Adult Redeploy Illinois:

  • Reduce crime and recidivism at a lower cost to taxpayers.
  • Use financial incentives to counties or judicial circuits to create effective local level evidence based services.
  • Encourage the successful local supervision of eligible offenders and their reintegration into the locality.

Successful applicants will demonstrate how the use of evidence-based practices in assessment, supervision and treatment will improve public safety and offender outcomes. To support the long-term sustainability of the program and its recidivism reduction goals, applicants also must include the development of a community involvement piece in their local plans (e.g., Community Restorative Boards, community service, mentoring).

View further information about the RFP.

 
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This project was supported by Grant # 2009-SU-B9-0055, awarded by the Bureau of Justice Assistance, Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice, through the Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority. Points of view or opinions contained within this document are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the official position or policies of the U.S. Department of Justice, or the Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority.