December 2007 - Posts

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• Hot Best Practices Tool-Kits

  Filed under: What works, Sex offenders, Offender Employment, Evidence-Based Practices, Faith-Based Programs

  The Institute for Excellence in Justice has been very busy this week, catching up on posting the Best Practices Tool-Kits out of the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction's Ohio Institute on Correctional Best Practices. New on the site are tool-kits addressing " Faith-Based Programming, Reentry and Recidivism ," " Offender... Read More » Posted Dec 31 2007, 11:22 AM by Eileen Conway with no comments | 1,459 views

• New Jersey Abolishes Capital Punishment

  Filed under: Supreme Court, Capital punishment

  The State of New Jersey has become the first state in over 40 years to abolish the death penalty . The eight men currently on death row will have their sentences commuted to life without parole. Executions have been on hold in the U.S. pending a decision by the Supreme Court on whether the use of lethal injections violates the constitutional ban on... Read More » Posted Dec 17 2007, 11:47 AM by CC Pro with 1 comment(s) | 545 views

• Reentry Training Available for State Agencies

  The Bureau of Justice Assistance is supporting training for state agencies to enhance successful offender reentry from prison to community. Three sites will be selected to provide training for up to 250 participants per site. The curriculum, developed and delivered by the Center for Effective Public Policy, targets staff involved in preparing and assisting... Read More » Posted Dec 13 2007, 12:02 PM by llinke with 1 comment(s) | 726 views

• U.S.Sentencing Commission Revisits Crack Cocaine Sentencing

  Filed under: Legal issues, Sentencing, Racial disparities, U.S. Sentencing Commission

  The U.S. Sentencing Commission , which sets guidelines for federal prison sentences, voted unanimously "to allow some 19,500 federal prison inmates, most of them black, to seek reductions in their crack cocaine sentences." Eligible inmates would receive no more than a two-year reduction. While the commission has made this recommendation, federal... Read More » Posted Dec 12 2007, 10:50 AM by CC Pro with no comments | 481 views

• Looking across the Pond for Correctional Improvements

  Filed under: Corrections Reform, Great Britain

  The dilemmas created by burgeoning prison populations and fiscal constraints are not unique to the United States. It might sound familiar that "...we need a long term strategy to create an affordable and sustainable solution to the limitations in the way we create demands on our custodial resources and then respond to them." Quoted not about... Read More » Posted Dec 06 2007, 11:36 AM by Eileen Conway with no comments | 521 views

• Prisoners in 2006

  Filed under: Statistics

  The official statistics from DOJ's Bureau of Justice Statistics are out for 2006 , with some interesting findings. "During 2006, the prison population grew at a faster rate than in the previous 5 years...However, the 2006 growth rate was less than the annual growth rates of between 3.4% and 8.7% that occurred during the 1990s..." The report... Read More » Posted Dec 05 2007, 03:01 PM by Eileen Conway with no comments | 783 views