Corrections Community

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

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

I don't know if you are still working on this, but we developed an In-Service Training Module similar to what Hillsborough Co. FL was doing. We currently have 59 training modules that are simply a 3 inch notebook that contains for instance: a video or sometimes 3 videos, a lesson plan, a student...

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...

Hi, I am due to visit Tampa later this year and would like to try and arrange a visit to either a program delivery/training team or unit either in the community or in a correctional facility. I currently work for Her Majesty's Prison Service Headquarters in London, England. I am a National Trainer...

I would like to see how jail agencies structure their program staff to provide reentry services to incarcerated inmates. In our system, structured reentry efforts are provide for those serving a county jail sentence. Those incarcerated and awaiting trial are not provided with anything more than an opportunity...

I am a cognitive behavioral program specialist working for the Michigan Department of Corrections. The best way I know of to diminish manipulation by offenders is to learn about criminal thinking. There is a book called "Inside the Criminal Mind", by Stanton Samenow that gives an outstanding...

I am a newly hired Doctor into the Corrections system (California). For those of you (both Corrections Officers and seasoned Civilian Staff) with experience in dealing with inmates, what are some available resources (e.g., DVDs, books, websites) that you can recommend for me -- stuff that will help me...

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

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...