Corrections Community

Does anyone have a recommendation for a jail consultant to assist in determining a course of action for our community? We have an overcrowding problem (400+) inmate more than we have beds. We have a criminal justice counsel, day reporting, residential community corrections, work release, drug court...

Crisis in the Community: Understanding and Responding to the Sexual Abuse and Exploitation of Children.............SEPTEMBER 11, 2009 IN ATLANTA TO REGISTER: http://www.mentalhealthgeorgia.com/HTML/WORKSHOP/workshop2.html With vision and action, The Attachment and Bonding Center of Atlanta continues...

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I'm going to be interviewing Sen. Jim Webb's press secretary about his proposed bill to "overhaul the criminal justice system" later in the week and I want to know what types of questions other members of the Corrections Community would like to see answered. Sen. Webb is suggesting...

Dear Colleagues: A new article is available from the Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency on “ Using Social Media to Protect Public Safety--DC’s Fugitive Safe Surrender Prompts 530 Offenders with Warrants to Voluntarily Surrender in a Church.” The article is available on Corrections.com at...

One of the 10 most crack-infested neighborhoods in the country-New Radio Program-DC Public Safety-NCJA New Radio Program-Red Hook (NYC) Community Justice Center- http://media.csosa.gov Red Hook, once cited as one of the 10 most crack-infested neighborhoods in the country by Life magazine, is now home...

The program ( http://media.csosa.gov ) features an interview with Adam Gelb. Adam directs the Pew Public Safety Performance Project, which works with more than a dozen states to advance fiscally sound, data driven policies in sentencing and corrections that protect public safety, hold offenders accountable...

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...

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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...