Corrections Community

We are in the process of ACA accreditation and need some advice/guidance on the standard related to external peer review. Does anyone utilize external peer review, what is your process and how does it work? Thank-you.

I would like to inquire with other departments regarding their policy on temporary custody holds and if any one would be able to share their policy with me. I interpret Temporary custody as housing Inmates for 1-4 hours pending bail. Any power point presentations of this topic would me most helpful....

Hello, I am a Korean university professor /researcher who have studied corrections, prisons and punishment. you all may be suprised when you see this post from the other side of pacific..... I desperately need your help for my work. I am now working on a paper about how american prisons...

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...

In Jacksonville, Florida, we have 48 juvenile offenders as of this date. We were questioned on this standard by the auditors. Although we did the majority of the required training, there were still some areas that we did not specifically train the officers on that work in the juvenile area of our facility...

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...

I am curious as to how each agency is meeting the standard below. I do not want to create the "wheel" again so if you could send me any information on this, I would appreciate it. 4-ALDF-2A-43: Program personnel who work with youthful offenders are trained in the developmental, safety, and...