Government Innovators Network: Topic: Corrections, Probation & Parole

This page summarizes Government Innovators Network content about Corrections, Probation & Parole.

This section focuses on innovations in the areas of corrections, probation and parole. Topics of interest include innovative re-entry efforts, prison-based drug treatment programming, community service, discharge planning, pre-release, education, early release, prison industries, sentencing, parole supervision and health.

Structured Sentencing (45%)
Innovations in American Government Awards
May 18, 2005

Reparative Probation (30%)
Innovations in American Government Awards
May 18, 2005

Alternatives to Incarceration (27%)
Innovations in American Government Awards
June 14, 2005

Public Safety Collaborative (23%)
Innovations in American Government Awards

California Education Authority (21%)
Innovations in American Government Awards

Getting Ready: Keeping Communities Safe (21%)
Innovations in American Government Awards
2008

State hopes; new prisons,; early release; cut crowding (37%)
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (Pennsylvania)
October 27, 2008

Department of Correctional Services, Division of Parole Develop Brochure For Families of Offenders Returning Home to Help With Adjustment from Prison to Community (25%)
US States News
December 10, 2008

'The right path' // Known as 'drug court,' Cumberland County's treatment program reaches the hardest of the hard-drug and alcohol cases with an alternative approach. Clients meet the rigors of reform or risk time in prison. // A LAST CHANCE (20%)
Patriot News (Harrisburg, Pennsylvania)
January 4, 2009

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Relevant Articles and Resources Compiled by the National Institue of Justice for the Online Chat: "Prisoner Reentry: Facing the Challenges of Returning Home" (100%)
National Institute of Justice
November 1, 2005

The Decline in Crime: Why and What Next? (96%)
Urban Institute
October 26, 2000

Prosecution in the Community: A Study of Emergent Strategies (63%)
Catherine M. Coles, George L. Kelling
Wiener Center for Social Policy, John F. Kennedy School of Government
September 1, 1998

Neighborhood Revitalization: Lessons from Savannah and Baltimore (58%)
David M. Kennedy
National Institute of Justice
August 1, 1996

Reducing Gun Violence: The Boston Gun Project's Operation Ceasefire (53%)
Braga, Anthony A., David M. Kennedy, Anne M. Piehl, Elin J. Waring
U.S. Department of Justice
September 1, 2001

National Institute of Justice Journal 252 (51%)
National Institute of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice
National Institute of Justice
2005

Community Defenders in the 21st Century: Building on a Tradition of Problem-Solving for Clients, Families and Needy Communities (40%)
Cait Clarke
U.S. Department of Justice
January 1, 2001

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