Services

John Rakis and Associates provides expert services to criminal justice agencies and their community partners. Our core competencies include:

• assessment of prisoner rehabilitation programs and development of effective, evidenced-based reentry initiatives for jails and prisons;

• design, development and delivery of customized prisoner and correctional staff training intended to improve the employment prospects of offenders and reduce recidivism;

• design and development of offender workforce development initiatives for persons under probation and parole supervision;

• design and development of multimedia software products used to train prisoners, ex-offenders and professional staff;

• evaluation of jail and prison suicide prevention efforts and the design of programs, policies and procedures and other measures intended to reduce the risk of prisoner suicide;

• strategic planning for criminal justice and nonprofit agencies; and

• proposal research and grant writing.