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| Dear Leadership eNews subscriber, If by some chance you haven't heard of EBP, give Frank Domurad's piece a careful read. Not only is EBP becoming a more frequently required standard for justifying spending scarce criminal justice dollars, interestingly its core importance may be tied to public morality. Can we use EBP to examine the realities of prison life? Writer Cherrie Greco wonders what the impact of declining resources will be on the prison environment. In any case, all of this requires good communication — and lots of it. Now more than ever, prisons need dialogue at and between every level. It may be at the moment we elect to listen rather than talk that we hear the new idea that will contribute greatly to our collective endeavor. — Erin Hicks, CorrectionsOne Editor |
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Evidence-based practices: A question of morality? | |
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We now know beyond a shadow of a doubt that the Scared Straight program can increase recidivism among youthful participants by as much as 28 percent. More harm than good? |
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Finding meaningful use of time for inmates | |
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Offender idleness is the precursor for lack of order and disruption. Yet, many decision-makers are cutting important programs that were once used to keep populations engaged. Changes in institution atmospheres |
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Forming a proper dialogue in corrections | |
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Success in the correctional world is entirely dependent on effective relationships among everyone involved at every level. Avoid common negative impulses |
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| Lege sends savings from prison closure to private prisons | ||
| According to Mike Ward at the Statesman, Texas will close just one prison, which as readers know is an historic first but also less than this blogger would prefer. I'm saddened, though, that they're redirecting the savings not to diversion programming or community supervision but to lease private prison beds. Full Post | ||
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