Corrections Community

I am a member of the Large Jail Network forum, which is restricted to members, almost all of whom are practitioners, and the few others that post or respond appear to be academics working criminal justice.  It is very valuable and I try to read all the posts, and if I see a topic come up that we are involved in and our "take" ...

Please pardon the tardiness of my response, I was out a good bit last week. Florida does not mandate a ratio of staff to inmates, and we don't have a single ratio we apply to all areas of the jail.  The Orange County jail has eight different buildings housing inmates in security settings ranging from Capital/Life felons to Work ...

We assess both risk and needs for pretrial release candidates.  We do not, however, use the needs assessment as a predictor of successful completion of PTR, although we are reviewing that issue now and may change our policy.   We do use it for the supervising officers' use in later contacts with the defendants, since the ...

In Florida the bill was the result of very significant lobbying by the bail bond industry.  They are pretty significant contributors to political campaigns here, as I suspect they are in many states.  They contribute to local, state and federal campaigns, both through their individual businesses and their state and national professional ...