Corrections Today back issues from July 1993:
A tribute to correctional employees. (Editorial)
Jul 01, 1993; ... ACA proudly salutes the courageous deeds and spirited efforts of all correctional employees as they confront the enormous challenges facing correctional systems throughout America and in other nations. All of us want to have our contributions recognized and respected. It is not ...
Examining the role of corrections in managing death row, executions.
Jul 01, 1993; ... The death penalty is a much discussed issue among the public, the criminal justice community and ACA members. The fact that 36 states currently have capital punishment while 14 states do not is just one sign of the division of opinion on this subject. This issue of Corrections ...
Don't oversell home monitoring. (Letter to the Editor)
Jul 01, 1993; ... A recent "Inside Edition" segment on electronic monitoring featured a murder victim's father shouting that this was the poorest form of incarceration he had ever seen. The show got me thinking about what we in corrections promise by the phrases we use to describe various electronic ...
Probation program offers officer his toughest challenge.
Jul 01, 1993; ... In April 1990, the New York City Department of Probation established a special needs unit in Brooklyn to address the problems of probationers whose offenses relate to domestic violence, sexual assault or driving while intoxicated. I would like to offer some observations about what it's ...
The lighter side of corrections technology.
Jul 01, 1993; ... When my corrections career started at a Pennsylvania jail in 1970, technology consisted of a two-way speaker system - affectionately called the "squawk box" because you could hardly hear the other party over the static - and a bicycle bell strapped to the front gate that you rang to notify ...
USDB corrections officers help end major disturbance. (United States Disciplinary Barracks)
Jul 01, 1993; ... Johnnie H. Smith, Theonis S. Brown and Robert G. Super, correctional sergeants at the U.S. Disciplinary Barracks in Fort Leavenworth, Kan., each faced angry inmates and dangerous conditions during a May 1992 disturbance and took steps to prevent a full-scale riot. The ...
Massachusetts officers disarm inmate holding woman hostage.
Jul 01, 1993; ... King Williams, a correctional counselor at the Pondville Correctional Center in Norfolk, Mass., was meeting with an inmate the afternoon of July 11, 1992, when he sensed that another counselor's meeting with an inmate wasn't going well. "I had a funny feeling that something was ...
Discover Middle Tennessee during your trip to Nashville.
Jul 01, 1993 ... Nashville's mid-state location makes it a natural starting point for making your way around the surrounding area. Natural wonders, historic homes and sites, state parks and a variety of festivals and events all provide entertaining day trips when you're not involved in Congress activities ....
A tough assignment. (Managing Death Row)
Jul 01, 1993; ... This past January at the ACA Winter Conference in Miami, I attended a workshop that focused on death penalty procedures. Listening to the discussions and presentations, one could have concluded that executions occur in a sterile environment, devoid of any feelings or emotions. ...
Enforcing the death penalty with competence, compassion.
Jul 01, 1993; ... Planning and managing an execution is the most difficult assignment I have ever faced or asked my staff to support. Since 1990, we have carried out two executions at Broad River Correctional Institution in Columbia, S.C., where I am warden. I hope that sharing my thoughts on our ...
Planning is the key to handling media interest in an execution. (case study at San Quentin)
Jul 01, 1993; ... As dawn was breaking the morning of April 22, 1992, more than 100 news reporters at San Quentin State Prison sent word to their editors that Robert Alton Harris had been executed. Within minutes, the historic prison became a giant backdrop for viewers across the country and around the ...
Helping prison staff handle the stress of an execution.
Jul 01, 1993; ... An execution is an intensely symbolic act, one that stirs heartfelt beliefs about capital punishment and fuels growing public frustration with violent crime. For those involved in carrying out an execution, the experience is particularly difficult and stressful. One cannot perform a more ...
A look at day-to-day death row operations.
Jul 01, 1993; ... In Florida, as in other states, executions are often high-profile events that receive national media coverage and generate a great deal of interest and discussion. Less is known, however, about the day-to-day operation of the state's death row unit. Since 1979, 29 offenders have ...
South Carolina victim advocate helps address families' concerns.
Jul 01, 1993; ... In 1982, during a hearing to determine whether a death row inmate would win a new trial, the victim's wife angrily confronted the prosecuting attorney handling the case. She was upset because she had only learned of the bid for the new trial from the inmate's lawyer, who called her before ...
Bringing vision to corrections. (role of video communications)
Jul 01, 1993; ... Throughout my 40-plus years in corrections I have been intrigued with technology. It can be a great ally in assisting correctional staff in their responsibilities within institutions and the community. Correctional services have improved immensely through the use of portable radios, ...
Nine steps to a successful prison construction project.
Jul 01, 1993; ... The success or failure of a prison construction project often is decided before the first shovel breaks ground. The principal determining factor, as with every type of endeavor, is how meticulously it is planned. The preconstruction process is particularly critical in prison ...
US Army details execution plans.
Jul 01, 1993; ... The last military execution took place in 1961, when John A. Bennett was hanged for rape and attempted murder. Currently, the military has six inmates on death row. Since the reinstatement of the death penalty in 1976, more than a dozen military offenders have been sentenced to death; ...
NIJ service provides valuable corrections construction data. (National Institute of Justice)
Jul 01, 1993 ... The National Institute of Justice Construction Information Exchange offers a number of services to help corrections officials plan, finance, design and build new prisons and jails. Among the services the network offers are: * information from a newly completed questionnaire on ...
Missouri prison staff head citizen awareness program.
Jul 01, 1993; ... Of the problems confronting corrections, perhaps none is more critical than the public's lack of understanding of contemporary prison operations. Although the public considers crime one of today's most pressing social concerns, the realities of prison operations remain unfamiliar for the ...
New York state converts forms onto electronic mail network.
Jul 01, 1993; ... Forms - they're one of corrections employees' biggest headaches. Every day staff use reams of paper to fill out forms for everything from tracking inmate movement to requesting office supplies to generating monthly expenditure reports. To alleviate its reliance on paperwork, in ...
Conducting safe and efficient probation and parole searches.
Jul 01, 1993; ... As parole and probation continues to become more control-oriented, an officer's ability to conduct effective searches of offenders and their property is increasingly important. In many jurisdictions, judges now require offenders to submit to searches as a probation condition, and nearly ...
SCDC provides proper burial for inmates with no survivors. (South Carolina Department of Corrections Cemetery)
Jul 01, 1993; ...A metal casket adorned with a spray of blue and white carnations rested on a brace over the open grave. A minister standing next to Jimmy Patterson's coffin read Biblical passages, then recited the benediction. "In the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. ...
It could save your life. (learning Spanish)
Jul 01, 1993; ... About 13 percent of the state and federal inmate population is Hispanic, making it vitally important for officers to know how to communicate in Spanish. Correctional officers and probation and parole officers who take the time to learn what I call "Survival Spanish" can reduce the ...
Corrections/vo-tech partnership offers maximum training benefits.
Jul 01, 1993; ... Like many states, Oklahoma has worked to expand its vocational training efforts in recent years. The state now offers 54 programs at vocational skills centers in 13 state prisons. About 570 inmates are currently enrolled in vocational classes. However, Oklahoma differs from most ...
Ohio revamps protective control.
Jul 01, 1993; ... The management of protective control inmates in Ohio has developed over the past 25 years into an important security feature of the state's correctional system. The changes we have made in handling these inmates and in our overall philosophy toward protective control offers an interesting ...
The Persistent Prison? Rethinking Decarceration and Penal Reform.
Jul 01, 1993; ... Efforts to reform correctional policy and practice usually are met with cries of "nothing works." This criticism, once reserved for advocates of rehabilitative programming, now also is used to silence advocates of alternatives to incarceration. The '90s version of "nothing ...
Ethics in Criminal Justice: In Search of the Truth.
Jul 01, 1993; ... Ethics in Criminal Justice is an excellent addition to the small number of books that have been published about this important subject. Author Sam Souryal does a good job addressing issues that often are taboo in the field, such as lying, corruption and misconduct. The book is ...
Gangs and Schools.
Jul 01, 1993; ... In Gangs and Schools, Richard Arthur offers his perceptions on what works and what doesn't with youths who are gang members. Although the author identifies strategies in areas such as reaching out to gang members, influencing gangs, establishing an effective classroom environment and ...
Community Corrections.
Jul 01, 1993; ... In addition to serving as a textbook for beginning criminal justice students, Community Corrections provides a solid understanding of the subject to anyone unfamiliar with the community corrections concept. The book includes several special features that make it an ideal ...
Nightmare Abroad.
Jul 01, 1993; ... Nightmare Abroad is a compilation of mostly anecdotal accounts of Americans imprisoned abroad. The author, a freelance journalist, recounts his visits to several foreign prisons to interview Americans. While not all the American prisoners can be fairly viewed as having nightmarish ...
Ohio county finds accreditation offers solutions for small jails.
Jul 01, 1993; ... When funding is limited, how can administrators of small jails meet their fundamental obligation to comply with constitutional minimums for inmate life, health and safery standards? As sheriff of Geauga County, Ohio, from 1981 until January 1993, I found that seeking and receiving ACA ...
Profiling inmates by custody level.
Jul 01, 1993; ... In June 1990, the U.S. Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Statistics carried out the nation's fourth census of state and federal correctional institutions. In the summer of 1991, BJS conducted a nationally representative sample survey of nearly 14,000 offenders held in state ...