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• CSG Justice Center Releases Guide to Manage Mentally Ill in Community Corrections

  The Council of State Governments (CSG) Justice Center announced today the release of a policy and practice guide for managing mentally ill offenders in the community (see attached press release). The publication, Improving Outcomes for People with Mental... Posted Mar 31 2009, 10:20 AM by llinke with Filed under: Research, Mentally ill offenders, Rehabilitation, Evidence-Based Practices, Release Planning, Alternatives to Incarceration

• "Women in Corrections" to Meet in Des Moines

  The National Conference of Women Working in Corrections & Juvenile Justice will be meeting October 26-29, 2008 in Des Moines, Iowa. Twenty-nine workshops (under five major themes), plus an all day session on evidence -based practices and gender responsive... Posted Oct 08 2008, 11:59 AM by llinke with Filed under: women offenders, Evidence-Based Practices, Training

• Putting Public Policy on an Evidence-Based Track

  Saying that "U.S. public policy has increasingly been conceived, debated and evaluated through the lenses of politics and ideology," the Urban Institute has released an updated brief, Beyond Ideology, Politics, and Guesswork: The Case for Evidence... Posted Aug 12 2008, 10:09 AM by Eileen Conway with Filed under: Evidence-Based Practices, Public Policy

• Hot Best Practices Tool-Kits

  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... Posted Dec 31 2007, 11:22 AM by Eileen Conway with Filed under: What works, Sex offenders, Offender Employment, Evidence-Based Practices, Faith-Based Programs