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| Dear Leadership eNews subscriber, As we complete the first year of the newsletter, we'd like to thank you for your interest. We endeavor to bring you new ideas and perspectives in corrections, and this month is no different. Contributors Joe Serio and Eric Williams attended the North American Association of Wardens and Superintendents annual conference earlier this week in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. They had a chance to visit the Angola Prison Rodeo and speak with legendary warden Burl Cain. This issue of Leadership eNews focuses on some of the vision and management practices that have transformed Angola from a bloody cauldron of tension and violence to a forward-looking institution of hope. — Erin Hicks, CorrectionsOne Editor |
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What all of us want | |
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One of the things that struck me while listening to Warden Burl Cain speak at a recent conference was that, in one way or another, he echoed the same sentiments I've heard around the world. Four basic human desires |
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Strengthen hope in inmates | |
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Legendary warden and corrections icon Burl Cain has a philosophy that rests in large part on hope, even at a prison where 93 percent of the inmates will never see the light of day. Balancing the need for order and calm |
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Can we try new things? | |
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Many of the wardens were blown away by what they saw at the Angola Prison Rodeo. But it wasn't the bull riding and roping that shocked them; it was the inmate craft fair held simultaneously with the rodeo. At least 500 inmates |
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| False debates on corrections budgets ignore savings from deincarceration | ||
| Diane Jennings at the Dallas News has an interesting feature on prison-related budget cuts to prison programming and employee benefits. Though most of the discussion covers familiar ground, one comment in the story from Robert Worley, a criminal justice professor at Texas A&M Central Texas, struck me as flat-out wrong-headed regarding TDCJ employee turnover. Full Post | ||
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