Corrections Community

An examination of the jails function within the correctional system and collaboration among the components to achieve the shared goal of reduced recidivism is the focus of " Our System of Corrections: Do Jails Play a Role in Improving Offender Outcomes?" "This paper was developed as part...

The term "evidence-based" is used widely in describing effective interventions in fields ranging from medicine to corrections. But what is the definition of and the guiding principles that indicate whether individuals and agencies are engaging in proper decision-making for the treatment and...

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...

Agencies across the country are seeking ways to incorporate evidence-based practices into their programming. While not yet approved for Departmental use, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation's Office of Research, and the Center for Evidence Based Corrections at UC Irvine, have...