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Today, July 1st, 2008, the Corrections Community website, sponsored by the National Institute of Corrections celebrates its 2-year birthday. The Corrections Community is a unique and valuable way for corrections professionals to network and work together...
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Newly posted by Ohio's Institute for Excellence in Justice are two best practice tool kits, plus proceedings from a seminar on family relationships. The tool kits are "Family Involvement During Incarceration and Reentry," and "Incarcerated...
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"New Gender Responsive Classification Instruments for Women Offenders: What do they look like and how will they improve practice?" The National Institute of Corrections (NIC) will host three, separate 2-hour information sessions, using an interactive...
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On June 27, 2008 at the CNM Workforce Training Center in Albuquerque, New Mexico, 22 participants received certificates for completing the Offender Workforce Development Specialist Partnership Training program. The participants included representatives...
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Jail Administrators may be interested in a new posting in our Corrections Community on the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) blog. View the blog post, Sexual Victimization in Local Jails Reported by Inmates, 2007.
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The Bureau of Justice Statistics has published a report on sexual victimization in local jails. The data for the 2007 National Inmate Survey (NIS) was collected from a sample of 40,419 inmates between April and December, and surveyed 282 local jails....
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The 2008 edition of Topics in Community Corrections is now available. Applying Evidence-Based Practices in Pretrial Services provides a framework for pretrial personnel to employ research-based practices in "developing programming, designing supervision...
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On June 19, 2008 at the headquarters of the New York State Department of Labor in Albany, New York, 24 participants received certificates for completing the Offender Workforce Development Specialist Partnership Training. The participants included representatives...
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On August 20, 2008 , the National Institute of Corrections will host a live 3-hour satellite/Internet broadcast featuring a diverse panel of corrections and workforce development professionals, including correctional administrators, policymakers, employers...
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This project has two areas of focus: assistance to selected jails in implementing the six elements of inmate behavior management and evaluation of the process and impact of implementation. The project award will be for a two-year period, and the project...
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The National Prison Rape Elimination Commission has released draft standards for lockups, community corrections, and juvenile facilities, which are available at www.nprec.us for public comment from June 16th through August 1st. The first set of draft...
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The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention has funding available for a training and technical assistance provider for juvenile courts and juvenile drug courts wishing to implement the Brief Intervention and Referral to Treament (BIRT) model...
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The Annie E. Casey Foundation , a private charitable organization established to promote the welfare of disadvantaged children, has released their latest data book on the status of children and families in the United States. Along with the latest available...
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According to governmentexecutive.com: "The government should do more to assure individuals with criminal records that they are not barred from certain types of federal employment, lawmakers said on Tuesday. At a hearing before the House Oversight...
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It's that time, when preliminary/midyear data are released by the FBI and the Bureau of Justice Statistics regarding crime rates and incarceration for 2007. In its preliminary crime rate report , the FBI finds: " Preliminary figures indicate...