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The Center for Evidence-Based Corrections, at the University of California, Irvine, has just posted the results of the first analysis of implementation and outcomes for GPS monitoring of high risk sex offender parolees in California. In Implementation and Early Outcomes for the San Diego High Risk Sex...

The Institute for Excellence in Justice has been very busy this week, catching up on posting the Best Practices Tool-Kits out of the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction's Ohio Institute on Correctional Best Practices. New on the site are tool-kits addressing " Faith-Based Programming...

With almost 70% of sex offenders under community supervision, an effective way to manage and monitor their computer usage is essential to community corrections professionals. The National Law Enforcement and Corrections Technology Center (NLECTC) offers, free of charge to community corrections agencies...

A recent report by the New Jersey State Parole Board on Global Positioning System (GPS) monitoring of sex offenders chronicles their initial experience with this technology. A pilot program to track sex offenders deemed most likely to re-offend, and who were not incarcerated or under civil commitment...

In a unanimous decision , the Georgia Supreme Court struck down a state law that placed a ban on where registered sex offenders could reside. The law, one of the most restrictive in the nation, forbade registered sex offenders from "living within 1,000 feet of of schools, churches or any other place...

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...

The Center for Sex Offender Management (CSOM) is a national project that supports state and local jurisdictions in the effective management of sex offenders under community supervision. CSOM was established in 1997 and is sponsored by the Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice , in collaboration...

The Washington State Department of Corrections has been tasked by the Governor to craft a plan with local law enforcement agencies to increase the usage of electronic global positioning systems (GPS) to monitor highest risk sex offenders. The Community Corrections Division will have the responsibility...