Search results matching tag 'prisons'

ARCHS IN ST. LOUIS TO LAUNCH NEW MENTORING PROGRAM VIA SECOND CHANCE ACT FUNDING

ARCHS — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 15:48:28 GMT

ARCHS AWARDED $265,944 IN FEDERAL SECOND CHANCE ACT FUNDING FOR MENTORING PROGRAM ST. LOUIS, MO: Area Resources for Community and Human Services (ARCHS) has been awarded $265,944 in funding by the U.S. Department of Justice to create a pre and post prison release mentoring program to serve non-violent offenders set to be released from Missouri prisons. The money is part of the Second Chance Act Mentoring Grant Program. ARCHS was the only grant recipient in Missouri for this particular mentoring funding. The grant will fund a two-year ARCHS’ Reentry Mentoring Partnership that is expected to serve 280 offenders, age 18-35, who are scheduled for probation and/or parole from the Women’s Eastern Reception Diagnostic and Correctional Center in Vandalia, Missouri and the Missouri Eastern Correctional Center in Pacific, Missouri. It is anticipated that half of the offenders will then voluntarily enroll in the post-release phase of the mentoring partnership. ARCHS plans to partner with the Missouri Department of Corrections (DOC), Missouri Board of Probation & Parole, Big Brothers Big Sisters of Eastern Missouri (Amachi), GUIDES Family Life Center, Helping Others Maintain Stability (HOMS), Humanitri, and the Institute for Peace and Justice to implement the grant. The ARCHS’ partnership will provide prisoners with pre-release mentoring activities that include family reunification support services. Post release services include mentoring, job and soft skills training and access to mental health and substance abuse services, housing and other community supports. In addition to the grant award, ARCHS and its partners will provide an additional $106,442 of in-kind funds to support the grant’s activities. The partnership is designed to enhance the existing pre-release services provided by the DOC. ARCHS partners with the DOC on several reentry initiatives, including hosting the annual Missouri Reentry Conference and supporting the efforts of the Missouri Eastern Region Reentry Group Effort (MERRGE). “This is the second federal grant ARCHS has been awarded to address the needs of Greater St. Louis’ ex-offender population,” said Wendell E. Kimbrough, ARCHS’ CEO. “In 2007, ARCHS was awarded a $1.9 million U.S. Department of Labor grant to support ex-offender job training activities. ARCHS exceeded the grant’s goal of serving 488 ex-offenders by reaching more than 640 and placing more than 350 in jobs annually valued at more than $5.6 million. We are proud of the trust that federal funders have placed in ARCHS’ strategic management system.” ARCHS’ 350 community partners annually serve more than 100,000 area residents. ARCHS manages more than $30 million in not-for-profit funds. Learn more at stlarchs.org

Pros and Cons of being a completely Tobacco Free Department

AmandaWilbers — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 20:39:53 GMT

Missouri is currently researching the pros and cons of becoming a completely tobacco free department. We are looking for any pros and cons other states have realized since they became tobacco free or that they have found when researching the idea.

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:

Prison Industry Security Audit Tool

Jeff Wydeven — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 22:05:26 GMT

Is anyone aware of an existing audit tool that is specific to Prison Industry and not the entire prison? Jeff Wydeven, Director of Planning and Operations Wisconsin Department of Corrections jeffrey.wydeven@wisconsin.gov 608-240-5180

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

Translation and Interpreting in US prisons/jails

aidimgg — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 11:53:18 GMT

Hello! I am working in a PhD paper on translation and interpreting in correctional facilities and I would like to know about how it is done in the USA. Any kind of information on this issue (from personal experiences to references to specialized literature) will be very much appreciated. Thanks! Aida Martinez

Re: controling a violent /irate inmates movement

Sayjack — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 03:33:26 GMT

Handcuffed individuals are not under complete control my any means. The administrators who terminated those officers are wrong to do so and jeopardize the safety of other officers by sending a message to the inmates that once cuffed, they can do anything they want without getting sprayed.

Statistic: Number of US Prisons

lsalinas — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 14:07:48 GMT

We are interested in finding out how many prisons are in use in the United States, but I am having trouble locating this statistic anywhere. I would appreciate any help I could get. Thanks a million!

Oregon Department of Corrections is seeking a Director of Douglas County Community Corrections!!

ODOC Recruitment — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 16:46:59 GMT

The Oregon Department of Corrections has an exciting opportunity at the Douglas County Community Corrections office in Roseburg, Oregon!

Principal Executive/Manager E - Director of Douglas County Community Corrections

SALARY: $4,754- $7,350 monthly, plus generous benefits
ANNOUNCEMENT: LECO0697A
CLOSES: March 21, 2008

The Oregon Department of Corrections is recruiting to fill a Principal Executive/Manager E - Director of Douglas County Community Corrections located in Roseburg, Oregon.
The purpose of this position is to plan, organize, manage and direct the Douglas County Community Corrections parole and probation programs for adult offenders.
To qualify: Three years of management experience in a public or private organization which included responsibility for each of the following: a) development of program rules and policies, b) development of long- and short-range goals and plans, c) program evaluation, and d) budget preparation.
Job announcement and State of Oregon application may be obtained through any Oregon Employment Department or log onto our web site at http://www.odocjobs.com.

The Community Corrections Branch is a major state program, defined in the Community Corrections Partnership Act and provides funding for the management and supervision of over 33,500 felony offenders sentenced to probation, parole, or post-prison supervision, and offenders sentenced to 12 months or less of incarceration. Community Corrections Administration is responsible for managing the grants to the counties for community corrections activities, the interstate transfer of offenders, jail inspections and prison release services.

The Division has the statutory responsibility to evaluate Community Corrections policies, to annually review the 36 counties’ compliance with the intergovernmental agreement, and to offer technical assistance when needed to gain compliance. In addition, Community Corrections Branch provides consultation and technical assistance to local agencies regarding community corrections options and effectiveness, facilitates communication among counties and problem-solving between counties, and organizes training activities specific to community corrections work. The Branch supports the statewide automated case management and offender tracking systems so that offender data is available to any community corrections office in the state and works to improve automation programs to meet user needs, design and test new programs, and trouble shoot automation related problems. The office is active in victim’s services, including the development of a statewide victim notification system with the Department of Justice.

For further information regarding the Oregon Department of Corrections, please visit our website at http://www.oregon.gov/DOC/.

The mission of the Oregon Department of Corrections is to promote public safety by holding offenders accountable for their actions and reducing the risk of future criminal behavior.

Oregon Department of Corrections

Human Resources Division
Recruitment & Background Investigations Unit

1793 13th Street SE

Salem, OR 97302

Toll Free: 877-888-5234
www.odocjobs.com

Health instead of incarceration for health care

Michael Connelly — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 21:29:00 GMT

Newsweek has a long article up on the pharmaceuticals that are proving hopeful in dealing with addicts and, secondarily although they don't go into it, possibly reducing our needs for prison beds for recovered offenders. (See http://www.newsweek.com/id/114716.) I'm interested in any efforts going on in states at this time to apply what's being developed through pharmaceutical discoveries and/or bioengineering breakthroughs to actual sentencing and correctional decisionmaking. The feds seem to be interested on a large scale, but what are states doing and talking about concerning the potentials, problems, and implementation of this kind of invention and possible shift of paradigms?