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multi-jurisdictional jail consolidation

looking for research or best practices covering consolidation of multiple municipal jail operations...can locate city-county consolidation but none on multi-city cooperatives...?

Posted to Correctional Research Roundtable (Forum) by ffiorello on 10-26-2009
Can recedivism be reduced to below 10%?

Read the article, "Prisoner Recidivism - a genuine solution to an American Epidemic" at: http://web.me.com/davidjkoch/davidjkoch/Daves_Blog/Daves_Blog.html

Posted to Correctional Research Roundtable (Forum) by Dave Koch on 10-25-2009
How WSIPP Did It

Fans of the Washington State Institute for Public Policy's 2006 document, Evidence-Based Public Policy Options to Reduce Future Prison Construction, Criminal Justice Costs, and Crime Rates, will be pleased to know that they have posted a paper extensively describing the methodology behind that report...

Posted to Correctional Research Roundtable (Forum) by Eileen Conway on 06-08-2009
Inmate Manipulation

I'm look for some suggestions on some books that deal with inmate manipulation of staff, particularly Correctional Officers. I viewed a power point from the "shared files" section but was looking for something more substantial. Any online resources would be of great help also. Sayjack

Posted to General Topics (Forum) by Sayjack on 10-20-2008
Basic Research

I am an Interior Design Grad Student who is working on my fourth year thesis project -- a correctional ficility for young offenders. I am looking to get a broad over view of community based juvenile corrections facilities, the users (physical/emotional needs,how they think/act/feel/heal,etc), the design...

Posted to General Topics (Forum) by Jennell09 on 09-21-2008
Evaluating Reentry Programming

Forum participants will likely be interested in new research finding negative outcomes for participants of the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections' Community Orientation & Reintegration Program. The report has been mentioned on the Thinking About Corrections blog, here .

Posted to Correctional Research Roundtable (Forum) by Eileen Conway on 05-28-2008
What Works/Does Not Work in Reentry

As Federal, state, and local governments look toward reentry programming as a means to improve outcomes for prisoners returning to the community, researchers are beginning to produce results regarding the effectiveness of these efforts. The Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency has just posted...

Posted to Thinking About Corrections (Weblog) by Eileen Conway on 05-28-2008
What Constitutes A "Good" Study, Part Deux

The guidelines are posted! I previously wrote about Public Safety Canada's work in defining guidelines for evaluating research study quality, and the detailed guidelines are now online. While specifically addressing sexual offender treatment outcome research, parameters such as administrative control...

Posted to Thinking About Corrections (Weblog) by Eileen Conway on 10-24-2007
What Constitutes a "Good" Study?

In an era of evidence-based practices, the question of research quality should be on everyone's radar. The Canadian office, Public Safety Canada, is tackling this issue head-on. Although focusing on sexual offender treatment research, a new report addresses issues applicable to other research into...

Posted to Thinking About Corrections (Weblog) by Eileen Conway on 03-28-2007
Factoring in Treatment Dropouts

An important issue in research on the effectiveness of correctional treatment programs is the tricky influence of non-completers on research outcomes. The Correctional Service of Canada has just posted two studies addressing dropouts: Estimating Risk of Dropout and Expulsion from Correctional Programs...

Posted to Thinking About Corrections (Weblog) by Eileen Conway on 01-09-2007

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