ANNOTATION: 'This research brief describes part of the Comprehensive Transition Planning Project'a collaborative project between the Substance Use and Mental Health Program at the Vera Institute of Justice and the New York City Department of Correction (DOC) ' [which is] to develop a reliable, low-cost, and easy-to-implement tool jail officials could use to identify people in jail who would benefit most from access to the system's limited discharge planning resources' (p. 1). The tool is called the Service Priority Indicator (SPI) and utilizes administrative data to target reentry services. Sections following an executive summary include: introduction; background'providing reentry services in jails, benefits of targeting people who are at greatest risk of recidivism, and risk screening vs. comprehensive risk/needs assessment; developing SPI; 'high risk' or 'high-service priority'; findings regarding SPI and rate of DOC readmission, SPI and length of stay, and reentry and release status; and conclusion. [read the full story here]