A Framework for Improving Cross-Sector Coordination for Emergency Preparedness and Response: Action Steps for Public Health, Law Enforcement, the Judiciary, and Corrections
(NCJ 223342), BJA and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, July 2008 (PDF)

Provides action steps for public health, law enforcement, judiciary, and corrections personnel to improve cross-sectoral coordination for emergency preparedness and response. These four sectors share overlapping responsibilities for the public's health and welfare, yet in general they tend to operate in isolation from one another. The document identifies four action steps: (1) organizing to implement opportunities for action; (2) roles and responsibilities; (3) communication and information sharing; and (4) education, training, and exercises.

Coordinated Implementation of Community Response Measures (Including Social Distancing) to Control the Spread of Pandemic Respiratory Disease: A Guide for Developing an MOU for Public Health, Law Enforcement, Corrections, and the Judiciary
BJA and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, July 2008 (PDF)

Developed to guide local, state, and tribal jurisdictions in the development of cross-sector pandemic influenza operating plans, this document is intended to improve the effectiveness of communitywide measures to control pandemic influenza, and describes the approach to developing an MOU and its necessary components.

The Jail Administrator's Toolkit for Reentry
(NCJ 222041), Urban Institute, May 2008 (PDF)

Provides practitioner-oriented guidelines and principles, accompanied by examples from jails and criminal justice officials across the country, to assist in developing strategies for preparing inmates to transition from jail to the community, including prerelease planning, discharge planning, transition planning, continuity of care, community-oriented corrections, and transitional care. This toolkit is a companion piece to Life after Lockup: Improving Reentry from Jail to the Community.

Life After Lockup: Improving Reentry from Jail to the Community
(NCJ 220095), Urban Institute, May 2008 (PDF)

Presents an overview of U.S. jails and the people who cycle through them, examines various ways that jurisdictions can address reentry from jail, profiles numerous and diverse reentry efforts from around the country, and explores the role of probation in reentry from jail. This monograph is a companion piece to The Jail Administrator's Toolkit for Reentry.

Repaying Debts
Council of State Governments Justice Center, October 2007 (Summary or Full Report)

Discusses the financial obligations of people released from prisons and jails and includes recommendations to help policymakers increase accountability among people who commit crimes, improve rates of child support collection and victim restitution, and make people’s transition from prisons and jails to the community safe and successful.