Justice Counts: Actionable Data to Bolster Public Safety

Justice Counts envisions a more effective and efficient criminal justice system by providing policymakers with actionable data to make policy and budgetary decisions. Justice Counts helps agency leaders adopt the Justice Counts metrics, make the data available, and help policy makers use them. It has supported a broad coalition to reach consensus around a set of metrics for each part of the system, including state departments of correction. States will develop a plan to engage agencies and localities, organize their data in the Justice Counts tool, and engage decisionmakers to use the data.