Corrections Community

The current issue of the NLECTC TechBeat Spring publication has a great article about the Revised Body Armor Standard and Testing Program. http://www.justnet.org/Pages/TechBeatIssue.aspx

The Updated National Criminal Justice Resources for Media is available from the Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency (CSOSA) in Washington, D.C. Also available is an updated CSOSA fact sheet. If interested, please send an e-mail to leonard.sipes@csosa.gov . Best, Len Sipes. http://media.csosa...

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...

Dear Colleagues: Please see the link below for Government Computer News. “DC Public Safety” is one of the ten best government web sites for state and local government ( http://www.gcn.com/print/27_21/47009-1.html ). Thank you for your support of http://media.csosa.gov . New Radio Show—Newly Released...

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...

Promoting corrections By Leonard A. Sipes, Jr. Published: 01/14/2008 in Corrections.com Last spring, I attended a meeting on promoting community corrections in Lexington, Ky. It was organized by the International Community Corrections Association, the American Parole and Probation Association, and was...

I'm also interested in any thoughts that can be sent along. I'm on the executive board of the National Association of Sentencing Commissions, and we're considering a panel on the topic of media and corrections sentencing policy for our annual meeting in San Francisco in August. Our concern...

A confluence of new items is raising again for me the question of how, or if, research ultimately influences public policy, and what roads might be taken to improve that influence. The Correctional Association of New York, a policy and advocacy organization, has just posted a comment on their site regarding...