Thinking About Corrections : Evidence-Based Practices

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

llinke — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 17:20:00 GMT

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 Illnesses under Community Supervision, was developed with support of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and the National Institute of Corrections. The guide reviews the body of recent research on community corrections supervision for people with mental illness and translates findings to help officials develop effective interventions. Link on the PDF of the guide above, or limited printed copies of the document are available from the NIC Information Center. More information regarding the mentally ill in corrections is available on the NIC Projects pages and Justice Center's Consensus Project website.

"Women in Corrections" to Meet in Des Moines

llinke — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 17:59:00 GMT

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 research are included in the program. Read more about the conference and registration infomation.

Putting Public Policy on an Evidence-Based Track

Eileen Conway — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 16:09:00 GMT

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-Based Policy. In just eight pages, the paper succinctly covers several public policy areas, including criminal justice and corrections.

Hot Best Practices Tool-Kits

Eileen Conway — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 18:22:00 GMT

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 Job Readiness and Job Retention," "Employing Ex-Offenders after Release from Prison," "Sex Offender Assessment and Treatment," and "Sex Offender Registration and Notification."