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Core partners:

  • Public Policy Associates, Inc.
  • Michigan Department of Corrections
  • Michigan Council on Crime and Delinquency
  • JEHT Foundation

Funded in part by the JEHT Foundation

The MPRI is a statewide collaborative effort administered through a public and private partnership, including the Department of Corrections, Department of Labor and Economic Growth, Department of Community Health, Department of Human Services, Department of Education, Public Policy Associates, and the Michigan Council on Crime & Delinquency.

Researchers and Evaluators

    The MPRI Evaluation

    The objective of the Michigan Prisoner ReEntry Initiative (MPRI) evaluation is to learn as much as possible about the entire continuum of the MPRI including what has worked, what has not worked, and how to improve the Initiative. This implies an understanding of both the results or outcomes of the work and the process of implementation. Measuring the outcomes lets one know whether the direction and magnitude of change is meaningful, and assessing the processes of implementation lets one know how the results were achieved.

    The evaluation results will be fed continually back to policy makers, MPRI architects, Michigan Department of Corrections staff, and to community partners. By providing frequent snapshots of the information gathered by the evaluation team, MPRI can be refined and improved. This will also allow lessons learned from the earliest implementation efforts to be applied to later efforts and also across sites. The information collected, analyzed, and summarized by the MPRI evaluation team will be a critical element of the MPRI and will contribute important knowledge to it.

    The MPRI Evaluation Goals

    1. Document the policy-development and implementation processes; capture all important lessons learned from the MPRI.
    2. Determine the effectiveness of the MPRI as measured through the long-term outcomes of recidivism and time before return to prison.
    3. Inform improvements (both in policy and in practice) within the MPRI community, with MDOC, with other state partners, and within the service-provision network.
    4. Equip policy makers and funders with the data needed to make effective decisions.
    5. Raise awareness and increase the understanding of the prisoner transition process.

    Michigan Department of Corrections (MDOC) MPRI Quarterly Status Report

    Please return to this website to review the evaluation findings and other related evaluation information. For questions or to obtain more information about the MPRI evaluation, please contact:

    Paul Elam
    Project Manager
    Public Policy Associates, Inc.
    Phone: 517.485.4477
    Fax: 517.485.4488
    pelam@publicpolicy.com

     


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