Corrections Community

NIC's Correctional Research Roundtable blog has a new post about a new evaluation of cognitive behavioral programs done by the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections. Programs evaluated are Changing Offender Behavior, the Criminal Attitudes Program, and Thinking for a Change. Participants of this...

Roundtable participants may be interested in the new issue of Research in Review , from the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections Bureau of Planning, Research, Statistics and Grants. This special issue on evaluation of pilot programs presents preliminary findings from internal evaluations of three cognitive...

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...

Christopher Innes, Chief of Research and Evaluation for the National Institute of Corrections, has addressed a major theme of this Roundtable head-on in a new article published in Western Criminology Review. Along with Ronald S. Everett, Dr. Innes examines "Factors and Conditions Influencing the...

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...

Forum participants may be interested in a periodical done by the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections' Office of Planning, Research, Statistics and Grants. Research in Review sometimes focuses on work being done within the department, and other times reviews published literature of significance...

NIC has released an issue of Topics in Community Corrections that focuses on evidence-based practices in pretrial services. The full issue can be downloaded here: http://www.nicic.org/library/022904 Contents include: “Foreword” by Ken Rose; “A Framework for Implementing Evidence-Based Practices in Pretrial...

NIC has released an issue of Topics in Community Corrections that focuses on evidence-based practices in pretrial services. The full issue can be downloaded here: http://www.nicic.org/library/022904 Contents include: “Foreword” by Ken Rose; “A Framework for Implementing Evidence-Based Practices in Pretrial...