Search results matching tag 'criminal justice'

jail consultant recommendations

gkurtz — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 14:25:25 GMT

Does anyone have a recommendation for a jail consultant to assist in determining a course of action for our community? We have an overcrowding problem (400+) inmate more than we have beds. We have a criminal justice counsel, day reporting, residential community corrections, work release, drug court and mental health court. Who have you worked with in the past and did they meet deadlines?

1 Day Conference in Atlanta - Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children (9/11/09)

Angela Dash Winfrey — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 19:25:03 GMT

Crisis in the Community: Understanding and Responding to the Sexual Abuse and Exploitation of Children.............SEPTEMBER 11, 2009 IN ATLANTA
TO REGISTER: http://www.mentalhealthgeorgia.com/HTML/WORKSHOP/workshop2.html With vision and action, The Attachment and Bonding Center of Atlanta continues its focus on providing mental health and emotional well-being through personal and professional development. As a result of our vision, our ABC University will host a one day themed Crisis in the Community: Understanding and Responding to the Sexual Abuse and [Commercial Sexual] Exploitation of Children and we are distinctly honored to extend to you an invitation to this event. At this September 11th event, participants will gain from national experts Dr. Sharon W. Cooper, M.D. and Detective Cathy De La Paz:
· a greater understanding of child sexual abuse including the commercial sexual exploitation of children and how our community can most effectively respond to this growing issue.
· a detail of the different aspects of child sexual exploitation and trafficking, including children victimized through pornography, prostitution, cyber-enticement, sex tourism, and human trafficking.
· information regarding the scope of the problem of child commercial sexual exploitation, its dynamics, characteristics and profile of the victim and the offender, as well as the pathway to victimization and recruitment techniques.
· knowledge of how investigative interventions of child commercial sexual exploitation cases differentiate from traditional child sexual abuse investigations, how to identify investigative challenges/issues related to these cases, and how to overcome these challenges through non-traditional proactive investigative techniques. Case examples will be utilized to illustrate where mistakes have been made and what successful investigative techniques have worked.
· a unique and rare look, "a first-hand, insider's view," of how children are victimized through prostitution from the victim's and the perpetrator's ("pimp's") perspective.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
Child advocates Child welfare professionals Defense attorneys Judges Juvenile justice professionals Law enforcement Mental health professionals Policymakers Prosecutors Social workers Therapeutic Group Home Providers
CONFERENCE PRESENTERS
Dr. Sharon Cooper Dr. Sharon Cooper, MD, FAAP, is the CEO of Developmental and Forensic Pediatrics, PA, a consulting firm that provides medical care, training, and expert witness experience in child maltreatment cases, as well as medical care for children with disabilities. She works regularly with numerous national and international investigative agencies on Internet crimes against children cases.
She holds faculty positions at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill School of Medicine at Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and at the Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland. She is also an instructor at the Army Medical Education Department Center and School at Ft. Sam Houston, Texas, where she provides multidisciplinary training in all forms of child maltreatment to health care providers, law enforcement, attorneys, judges, therapists, chaplains, and social workers.
Detective Cathy De La Paz
A 24-year veteran of the Dallas Police Department, assigned to the High Risk Victims and Trafficking Unit within the Child Exploitation Squad, Detective De La Paz specializes in conducting interviews of adolescent children and non-compliant victims who may be deceptive, avoidant and/or tentative in their disclosures. Because of this specialty, Detective De La Paz is often called upon to assist and consult on these interviews and cases, both locally and nationally. Additionally, Detective De La Paz instructs on the unique interview skills and investigative techniques needed on cases involving children who have been victimized through prostitution.
Detective Del La Paz has instructed for the Dallas Police Department Academy, the Tarrant County Regional Police Academy (Fatal Child Abuse and Neglect Program), the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP,) the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) and for various other agencies and conferences throughout the country. Detective De La Paz has also trained internationally regarding high risk youth/ prostitution interviews and investigations for law enforcement, prosecutors and NGO's from Thailand, Viet Nam, Cambodia, Laos, Singapore, China, Myranmar, and Singapore.

New Radio Shows on What Works in Parole and Probation and Promoting P&P Officers--177,000 Requests for July

Len Sipes — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 15:08:17 GMT

Welcome to DC Public Safety–radio and television shows on crime, criminal offenders and the criminal justice system.See http://media.csosa.gov for our television and radio shows, blog and transcripts. We now average 177,000 requests per month.We welcome your comments or suggestions at leonard.sipes@csosa.gov or at Twitter at http://twitter.com/lensipes.

Recent radio programs include a series addressing "What Works" in parole and probation and two programs celebrating parole and probation officers in recognition of Parole and Probation Officers Week.

The most recent programs address identity thefts which are estimated to occur at least 10 million times a year.

The show is hosted by Leonard Sipes. The producer is Timothy Barnes.Meta terms: crime, criminals, criminal justice, prison, incarceration, parole, probation, corrections,

Questions about Sen. Webb's prison reform bill

lwhyte — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 21:02:35 GMT

I'm going to be interviewing Sen. Jim Webb's press secretary about his proposed bill to "overhaul the criminal justice system" later in the week and I want to know what types of questions other members of the Corrections Community would like to see answered.

Sen. Webb is suggesting that the whole prison system is in need of reform and is proposing an 18 month study to decide what types of changes should be made.

I am the editor for the online corrections magazine, CorrectionsOne.com. I will be posting my whole interview on our website as part of a special report on Webb's prison reform bill.

What I want to do is provide members of Corrections Community with the opportunity to ask the senator their own questions (whether anonymously or not); to create an "open source" interview environment. Thus, if you have questions for Webb, please post them on this feed so I can ask them during the interview.

Here are a couple links with more information on what Sen. Webb is proposing:
- An article Webb wrote for Parade magazine: http://www.parade.com/news/2009/03/why-we-must-fix-our-prisons.html
- The full text of Webb’s bill: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/F?c111:1:./temp/~c111c5QrPU:e0:

New Article Available--Using Social Media to Protect Public Safety-DC Public Safety

Len Sipes — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 19:39:30 GMT

Dear Colleagues: A new article is available from the Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency on “Using Social Media to Protect Public Safety--DC’s Fugitive Safe Surrender Prompts 530 Offenders with Warrants to Voluntarily Surrender in a Church.”

The article is available on Corrections.com at http://www.corrections.com/news/article/20811?utm_source=CCNN_ezine&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=CCNN_ezine_2009mar .The article is also available on “Citizen Services.gov, Best Practices-High Standards that Work” from the U.S. General Services Administration at http://www.usaservices.gov/bestpractices/websites.php (first article). Additional articles are available on criminal justice system communications at http://media.csosa.gov (see blog). “DC Public Safety” is the social media service of the Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency.

One of the 10 most crack-infested neighborhoods in the country-New Radio Program-DC Public Safety-NCJA

Len Sipes — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 19:33:42 GMT

One of the 10 most crack-infested neighborhoods in the country-New Radio Program-DC Public Safety-NCJA

New Radio Program-Red Hook (NYC) Community Justice Center- http://media.csosa.gov Red Hook, once cited as one of the 10 most crack-infested neighborhoods in the country by Life magazine, is now home to the safest police precinct in Brooklyn, NYC. Welcome to DC Public Safety–radio and television shows on crime, criminal offenders and the criminal justice system. See http://media.csosa.gov for our television shows, blog and transcripts. We welcome your comments or suggestions at leonard.sipes@csosa.gov or at Twitter at twitter.com/lensipes.

New Radio Show— The Pew Public Safety Performance Project

Len Sipes — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 15:03:12 GMT

The program (http://media.csosa.gov) features an interview with Adam Gelb. Adam directs the Pew Public Safety Performance Project, which works with more than a dozen states to advance fiscally sound, data driven policies in sentencing and corrections that protect public safety, hold offenders accountable and control corrections spending. One of its reports, “One in 100: Behind Bars in America 2008” illustrated the high costs and low crime-control returns of prisons and highlighted state innovations that are cutting recidivism and saving money.The web site for Pew Public Safety is www.pewcenteronthestates.org. Go to “Public Safety Performance” for access to the documents mentioned.Pew is one of the most respected charitable trusts in America. Their web site is www.pewtrusts.org. The show is hosted by Leonard Sipes. The producer is Timothy Barnes. News for DC Public Safety Radio, Television, Blog and Transcripts

Per a recent Google search, DC Public Safety is the top ranked podcast for criminal justice issues.

We recorded 1,350,000 requests since inception in January of 2007. Thank you.

We recorded 125,000 requests for November. Thank you. Please link to us. Please create a permanent link to http://media.csosa.gov. We are a search engine powered service. We depend on quality links from you to help users find us. Use the link builder section of your web site (i.e., for Wordpress, it’s referred to as the “blogroll”) or cut and paste <a href="http://media.csosa.gov">DC Public Safety Radio, Television, Blog and Transcripts</a> and paste into your web site.

Correctional Ministry Outreach

kenneth.varney — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 02:22:24 GMT

Hello, I am an ex correction officer from Georgia and MIchigan. My pastor has put me in charge of forming our correctional outreach ministry. We are in the infant stages of forming the ministry and I am looking for training material to train our future volunteers on inmate manipulation and similiar topics. I would also like information on employment assistance or other prisoner assistance. Information on a prisoners family and children would be benificial also. I would greatly apreciate if anybody can help me with material, (videos and/or paper). Anything will help right now. You can email me at emmanuelproject@gmail.com or you can mail the material to Ken Varney, The emmanuel Project, PO Box 24, LeRoy, MI 49655. If any one from North West Michigan that is interested you can visit our temporary website at http://www.freewebs.com/the-emmanuel-project. I would apreciate any feedback about experiences they may of had from ministry volunteers/programs they have had at their facility. thanks Ken

One of Ten Best Government Web Sites--New Radio Program Available

Len Sipes — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 18:31:37 GMT

Dear Colleagues: Please see the link below for Government Computer News. “DC Public Safety” is one of the ten best government web sites for state and local government (http://www.gcn.com/print/27_21/47009-1.html). Thank you for your support of http://media.csosa.gov .New Radio Show—Newly Released from Parole SupervisionThe latest radio show from “DC Public Safety” interviews Paul Trantham and Rev. Yvonne Cooper of the Allen Chapel AME church in Washington D.C. On the day of the recording (September 10, 2008) Paul was released from the supervision of the US Parole Commission. Both address the realities of reentry from prison and faith-based efforts.The program can be found at http://media.csosa.gov. See radio programs. The cited program is at the top of the list.An article on CSOSA podcasting is available from the How E-Government is Changing Society project. It’s on our web site, www.csosa.gov. Another article from Tech Beat Magazine from the Department of Justice is also available. News for DC Public Safety Radio, Television, Blog and Transcripts

We recorded one million requests since inception in January of 2007. Thank you.

We recorded 102,000 hits for August. Thank you. Please link to us. Please create a permanent link to http://media.csosa.gov. We are a search engine powered service. We depend on quality links from you to help users find us. We now have the number one public safety blog in the country per Google. Per Blogged--top 100 podcasts for relevance. Per Podcast Pickle--Top 100 government podcasts. We received a recent first-place award (talk show category) from CTV in Prince Georges County, MD. We are one of the top television programs (government and organizational category) for AOL Video, Digg.com and other rating services. “A National Model of Public Communications”According to recent Google searches, “DC Public Safety” is one of the most popular criminal justice and reentry podcasts in the country. See http://www.usdoj.gov/fbci/progmenu_whatsnew.htmlfor an example of how the show is being used by the Department of Justice. See http://www.justicetalking.org/resources.aspfor the resource page of “Justice Talking” from National Public Radio. We are on the podcast page for USA.GOVhttp://www.usa.gov/Topics/Reference_Shelf/Libraries/Podcasts/PublicSafety.shtml.We are also featured by the National Institute of Corrections http://nicic.org/Library/022301.We have been referred to as “A national model of public communications,” by Jane Browning, Executive Director of the International Community Corrections Association Leonard A. Sipes, Jr.
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Treatment of Interstate Inmate(s)

marylu37 — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 14:40:42 GMT

How do you treat an interstate inmate who finishes 5 yrs and 7 months of a six year sentence, but does so on an interstate agreement. He finished early due to good time which is given in NJ. Upon his release PA picks him up via a detainer issued by a CO at a county correctional facility-again, what steps should be taken to help this inmate out? At this point in time, I'd say he's at least eligible for immediate parole and/or an emergent hearing, etc... ?