Recently added articles from Corrections Compendium:
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 ...
Prison nurseries: a pathway to crime-free futures.
Mar 22, 2009; ... As the population of incarcerated women continues to rise, so too does the population of incarcerated pregnant women. The question for state governments is whether to continue the policy of removing new children from inmate mothers after birth, or to adopt a more progressive policy of ...
Gangs/security threat groups.(Survey Summary)(Statistical table)
Mar 22, 2009 ... It has been five years since Corrections Compendium last documented statistics from U.S. departments of correction and Canadian systems on the subject of gangs and security threat groups (STGs). In that issue's survey summary (January/February 2004), it was concluded that formalized ...
Corrections calendar.(Calendar)
Mar 22, 2009 ... * American Jail Association, Annual Training Conference and Jail Expo, April 26-29, Louisville, Ky. For more information, visit www.aja.org. * American Institute of Architects, Annual Conference, April 30-May 2, San Francisco. For more information, visit www.aia.org/. ...
In 2008, 17 states enacted sentencing and corrections reforms in the areas of drug policy, parole revocation, racial justice, felony disenfranchisement, juvenile justice and higher education in prison.(Inter Alia)(Brief article)
Mar 22, 2009; ... In 2008, 17 states enacted sentencing and corrections reforms in the areas of drug policy, parole revocation, racial justice, felony disenfranchisement, juvenile justice and higher education in prison, re ported The Sentencing Project. The report, State of Sentencing 2008: Developments in ...
Hispanics made up 40 percent of all federal offenders in 2007 as a result of growth in illegal immigration and increased enforcement of immigration laws.(Inter Alia)(Brief article)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Hispanics made up 40 percent of all federal offenders in 2007 as a result of growth in illegal immigration and increased enforcement of immigration laws, reported the Pew Hispanic Center, a project of the Pew Research Center. A Rising Share: Hispanics and Federal Crime notes that ...
More than 7.3 million men and women were either in prison or jail or on probation or parole at year-end 2007.(Inter Alia)(Brief article)
Mar 22, 2009; ... More than 7.3 million men and women were either in prison or jail or on probation or parole at year-end 2007, reported the Bureau of Justice Statistics in a press release that pulled statistics from two of its reports: Prisoners in 2007 and Probation and Parole in the United States, ...
The number of minor children with a parent in prison increased 82 percent between 1991 and 2007, to 1.7 million.(Inter Alia)(Brief article)
Mar 22, 2009; ... The number of minor children with a parent in prison increased 82 percent between 1991 and 2007, to 1.7 million, reported The Sentencing Project in Incarcerated Parents and Their Children: Trends 1991-2007. The report analyzes and compares data from Bureau of Justice Statistics reports ...
A Comprehensive Study of Female Offenders: Life Before, During, and After Incarceration.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... A Comprehensive Study of Female Offenders: Life Before, During, and After Incarceration, by Martin Guevara Urbina, Springfield, Ill., Charles C. Thomas Publisher, 2008, 279 pp. Martin Guevara Urbina is to be commended for addressing important issues facing female offenders in A ...
Virginia copes with older inmates.(Deerfield Correctional Center )(Brief article)
Mar 22, 2009; ... The number of inmates 50 and older has doubled in Virginia during the past 10 years, from 2,015 in 1999 to 4,700 in 2009, reported the Richmond Times-Dispatch. The state has dedicated the male facility Deerfield Correctional Center in Capron, to geriatric inmates and inmates with special ...
Initiative addresses truancy in Washington state.(Brief article)
Mar 22, 2009; ... The Chicago-based John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation is funding a national initiative to address current challenges and concerns in the juvenile justice system, reported Tricityherald.com. The $120 million initiative, Models for Change, was implemented in four states, including ...
States look to cut costs.(state prisons)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Stateline.org, a publication of the Pew Center on the States, reported how states across the nation are coping with budget shortfalls. The dollar-saving measures include cutting prisoner rehabilitation programs, releasing inmates early, crowding them into already packed facilities, using ...
Coming of age: the International Corrections and Prisons Association.(International)
Mar 22, 2009; ... In March 1998, Canadian Commissioner of Corrections Ole Ingstrup, with support from the Correctional Service of Canada, the Canadian International Development Agency and Queen's University, hosted an international symposium called "Beyond Prisons" in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. With a goal ...
Continuing education home--study quiz.
Mar 22, 2009 ... This home-study program is designed for certified corrections professionals (CCPs) interested in increasing their knowledge of issues important to professional practice in the field of corrections. CCPs can earn three Category A continuing education contact hours for studying articles in ...
Self-reported prevalence of medical conditions within a correctional population.
Nov 01, 2008; ... The prevalence of a wide variety of chronic medical conditions within the 2 million-strong U.S. prison population is very high. Approximately 25 percent to 40 percent of all inmates at release have chronic medical conditions requiring continued health care services (McVey, 2001) ....
Gender-responsive treatment and the need to examine female inmates' lives in prison and prior to prison.
Nov 01, 2008; ... Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, the number of people with drug addictions entering the U.S. federal and state prison and local jail systems increased due to "get tough on crime" policies and changes in laws regarding illegal drugs. Women were particularly impacted as "the number of women ...
Adult correctional budgets, 2007-2008.(Survey Summary)
Nov 01, 2008 ... One year ago, Corrections Compendium conducted a similar survey on correctional budgets, the results of which appeared in the November/ December 2007 issue. Forty-five U.S. correctional systems responded to that survey, as well as three systems in Canada. The U.S. systems reported that ...
Juvenile offenders train abandoned dogs.
Nov 01, 2008; ... The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported on a dog training program at Hogan Street Juvenile Regional Youth Center in St. Louis. The program, Loosen the Leash, pairs juvenile offenders with rescued dogs for three months, during which the offenders live with and train the dogs, preparing them ...
Rehabilitation programs' success hard to measure.
Nov 01, 2008; ... The New York Times discussed the challenges of measuring the effectiveness of drug rehabilitation programs, focusing on how Oregon has tried to hold its programs accountable. The article documents the lack of hard evidence that programs produce, and why that is problematic for state and ...