Improving Outcomes for Women: Using the Agency Evaluation Tool for Women on Supervision

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Troy Hatfield is a Senior Manager at CEPP, where he supports the Community Supervision Resource Center (CSRC) serving as a substantive expert, trainer, and technical assistance provider on probation supervision issues. Mr. Hatfield also develops new resources for community supervision practitioners. Mr. Hatfield previously worked in the criminal justice field for over 25 years, beginning his career as a juvenile probation officer. He served as the Deputy Chief Probation Officer for the Monroe Circuit Court Probation Department for more than 15 years, overseeing adult and juvenile probation and the court alcohol and drug program. He also helped to create a legal and evidence-based pretrial services program and spearheaded the activities for the Reducing Revocations Challenge for the jurisdiction, facilitating data collection and developing policy and practice. He serves as an adjunct faculty member at Indiana University, teaching a course on probation and parole. Mr. Hatfield holds a BA in criminal justice and psychology from Indiana University and an MS in criminology from Indiana State University.

Keilah Joyner has worked in different capacities in the criminal justice system and on criminal justice policy for 10 years. As a Program Associate with the Center for Effective Public Policy (CEPP), she supports CEPP’s National Resource Center on Justice-Involved Women (NRCJIW), Advancing Pretrial Policy and Research, and other initiatives. Her deep commitment to improving outcomes for women and addressing disparities in the justice system fuels innovation in project teams and helps to move ideas from concepts to action. Previously, she held positions with the Florida Commission on Offender Review and various nonprofit organizations, including the Maryland Coalition Against Sexual Assault. She has also served in a direct service capacity with girls in the foster care and juvenile justice systems. She holds a bachelor of arts degree in journalism from Hampton University (Virginia), a master of science degree in criminology, and a master’s degree in public administration from Florida State University.

Erica King, MSW, is a Senior Manager with the Center for Effective Public Policy. She directs the National Resource Center for Justice Involved Women. She develops pathways to increased safety and well-being with and for women with justice histories, staff, and systems working with them. Before joining CEPP, Erica worked for two decades as Senior Policy Associate at the University of Southern Maine and consultant with Orbis Partners, leading efforts to strengthen trauma informed, evidence-based policy and practice strategies. Erica is a 2022 American Council of Learned Societies Fellow, co-leading an inside-outside public humanities curriculum on the themes of accountability, forgiveness, liberation and healing. Erica brings hard knowledge into her relational work with people to inform how data and lived experience can drive meaningful conversations and intentional decisions to improve community health, well-being, and vitality.

Alison Shames is a Director at CEPP, where she also serves on the organization’s Board of Directors. Ms. Shames leads many of CEPP’s pretrial projects, including the Advancing Pretrial Policy and Research initiative, which she helped develop and for which she has served as Co-Director since its launch in 2018. She is also the Director of the Illinois Pretrial Fairness Act Project, through which CEPP helps stakeholders implement the Pretrial Fairness Act, a groundbreaking law that abolishes the use of financial conditions of pretrial release. Before joining CEPP, Ms. Shames was a justice consultant and worked with organizations and jurisdictions to implement new programs, conduct strategic planning, and author reports. Prior to that, she served as the Associate Director and Director of Programs for the Center on Sentencing and Corrections at the Vera Institute of Justice; a policy manager for the Attorney General’s Department of New South Wales, Australia; and a law clerk to a federal district court judge in New Orleans. Ms. Shames received her JD from New York University School of Law and her BA from the University of Pennsylvania.