Recently added articles from Corrections Compendium:
An examination of legal cases involving the use of Tasers and stun guns on pretrial detainees.(Jailhouse Shock)
Jun 22, 2009; ... Tasers and stun guns are conducted-energy devices used by jail all and prison officers to subdue inmates. As nonlethal weapons, Tasers and stun guns are not designed to inflict serious injury or permanent harm, but they have nevertheless caused deaths when used on individuals with existing ...
More than three-quarters (77 percent) of adults believe alternatives to incarceration do not decrease public safety.(Inter Alia)
Jun 22, 2009; ... More than three-quarters (77 percent) of adults believe alternatives to incarceration do not decrease public safety, reported a Zogby International public opinion poll about American voter attitudes toward the U.S.'s response to nonviolent, nonserious crime. The National Council on Crime ...
Corrections Calendar.(Conference news)(Correction notice)(Calendar)
Jun 22, 2009 ... * International Community Corrections Association, 17th Annual Research Conference on What Works in Community Corrections, Sept. 13-16, Orlando, Fla. For more information, visit www.iccaweb.org. * American Correctional Association, Training for Trainers, Sept. 14-18, Alexandria, ...
The effects of setting, analyses and probation status.(Predicting Rearrests Among Felony Probationers)(Report)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Probation is the most common sentence in the U.S. for adult offenders. More than four million people are currently on probation in this country, and hundreds of thousands of convicted offenders are evaluated each year to determine their eligibility for a probation sentence (Glazer and ...
Inmate reentry and the utility of the LSI-R in case planning.(Level of Supervision Inventory-Revised)(Report)
Mar 22, 2009; ... The development of effective inmate reentry programming is one of the most critical challenges facing corrections in the 21st century. With the number of inmates reaching an all-time high of 2.1 million (Harrison and Beck, 2006), coupled with the fact that a vast majority of all inmates ...