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Integrating Risk, Need, and Responsivity Principles Using SCRAM Nexus®

Not every program or intervention works for every client. In fact, providing the wrong kind of treatment services can fail to improve client and program outcomes. SCRAM Nexus® integrates risk, need, and responsivity principles into your department’s existing models and automates client program placement based on their criminal history, allowing officers to easily assign clients to the most appropriate supervision models.

Category: Community Supervision, Evidence-Based Practices
Product: SCRAM Nexus

Implementing EBP With SCRAM Nexus®

Behavioral research has uncovered that by integrating evidence-based practices into pretrial, probation, and parole programs, your community can enhance client outcomes and improve community safety. SCRAM Nexus® is a revolutionary software platform that applies evidence-based practices into the day-to-day decision making of corrections officers, allowing for better allocation of their time and resources and efficient supervision management.

Category: Community Supervision, Evidence-Based Practices
Product: SCRAM Nexus

SCRAM TouchPoint® — Making Curfew Management Easy

State laws typically allow courts to impose curfews on criminal defendants as a condition of pretrial release or successful discharge from probation. SCRAM TouchPoint® for curfew management is an affordable, standalone monitoring and engagement tool designed to provide clients with an easy, user-friendly way to complete on-demand or scheduled location checks and check-ins right from their smartphone.

Category: Community Supervision
Product: SCRAM TouchPoint

From Pretrial through Probation, Ravalli County Jail Diversion Program is Reducing Recidivism and Creating Community

With a 93% compliance rate for those monitored with SCRAM Remote Breath®, and 63 SCRAM Continuous Alcohol Monitoring® (SCRAM CAM®) bracelets assigned in 2018, the Ravalli County, Montana, Jail Diversion program is helping clients successfully complete their sentences within a model alcohol and electronic monitoring program.

Category: Alcohol Monitoring, Community Supervision, Drunk & Impaired Driving
Product: SCRAM GPS, SCRAM Remote Breath, SCRAM Continuous Alcohol Monitoring

SCRAM GPS Analytics: Streamlining Your Caseload

With the average GPS client generating almost 1,500 location points a day, it can be time consuming to sift through the data, making it difficult for officers to pinpoint issues they need to address with their clients. But SCRAM GPS® Analytics and On-Demand Pursuit Mode make it easy for officers to simplify large amounts of data and quickly find and follow a client’s movements.

Category: Location Monitoring, Community Supervision
Product: SCRAM GPS

How Sheriffs are Using Alcohol Monitoring Technology to Supervise Offenders

Jail overcrowding is a serious issue in the U.S., imprisoning more people than any other nation in the world. With 60% of jail inmates awaiting deposition and not actually serving time for a conviction, sheriffs programs that rely on alcohol monitoring technology to oversee clients in lieu of incarceration are becoming more prevalent throughout the states.

Category: Alcohol Monitoring, Community Supervision
Product: SCRAM Remote Breath, SCRAM Continuous Alcohol Monitoring

Implementing a Repeat Alcohol Offender Program That Works

According to NHTSA, a person with one or more prior DUI/DWI offenses is 4.1x more likely to be involved in a fatal car crash, making repeat alcohol clients dangerous to a community. But, courts and agencies across the country are using alcohol monitoring technologies to create sustainable, outcome-driven programs to support long-term behavior change in repeat alcohol clients.

Category: Alcohol Monitoring, Community Supervision, Problem-Solving Courts
Product: SCRAM Continuous Alcohol Monitoring, SCRAM Remote Breath