Corrections Community

Fellow member, James Jacobs, of the Norval Morris Project and member of the Workforce Transformation Team has written a short article, recently published in the Federal Sentencing Reporter, about Norval Morris. A copy of this article has been made available for download in the shared files library. Follow...

From Ed Rhine, Deputy Director, Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction The Austin report and the background paper provide excellent documents to guide and stimulate the discussions of the workgroup. Jim's report offers far-reaching, evidence-based strategies for addressing the reduction...

From Roger Werholtz, Secretary, Kansas Department of Corrections I do think the first background paper boils the propositions down to something readily understandable that can guide our actions and invite further participation. As I was reading the larger Austin document and making notes in the margins...

From Mike Haddon, Deputy Director, Utah Department of Corrections: The Austin article summarizes, and perhaps in some areas overstates, what many of us have been considering for years. Issues such as the United States incarceration rate compared globally, the disconnect between incarceration rates and...

Breaking News! Reducing the Corrections Population Reducing the corrections population is a very timely topic - the lead article in Sunday's, March 29th, Parade magazine, 'Why We Must Fix Our Prisons' - www.salon.com's "Jim Webb's courage v. the "pragmatism" excuse...

"How can we safely and systematically reduce the correctional population by half in eight years?" The Population Reduction Topic Team has been formed as part of the National Institute of Corrections Norval Morris Project, a project designed to expedite the circulation of innovations and knowledge...