Daily updates on NIC’s Public Hearing will be posted here, on the NIC Corrections Community News site.

On August 22-23, 2012  the National Institute of Corrections (NIC) will hold a public hearing on corrections. The hearing, Balancing Fiscal Challenges, Performance-Based Budgeting, and Public Safety, will be at the Main Conference Center of the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. and address the area of cost benefit and cost containment measures. The topics will include: re-engineering corrections, setting the landscape of the current fiscal situation, offender health care, pharmaceutical costs, cost concerns over implementing PREA standards, and cost saving greening strategies.

Scheduled speakers include:

• Charles Samuels, Director, Bureau of Prisons
• Morris Thigpen, Director, National Institute of Corrections
• James Gondles, Executive Director, American Correctional Association
• Adam Gelb, Director, PEW Center on the States’ Public Safety Performance Project
• Bernie Warner, Secretary, Washington State Department of Corrections
• Jay Ashe, Superintendent, Hampden County, Massachusetts

WHEN:   August 22, 2012, 8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. EST; August 23, 2012, 8:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m. EST 
WHERE: U.S. Department of Justice, 950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Main Conference Center, Washington, D.C.

Seating is limited. If you would like to attend the public hearing, please rsvp by contacting Donna Deutsch at 202-510-9681 or by email at ddeutsch@mossgroup.us.

For more information:  Cost Containment - NIC’s Cost Containment in Corrections;  Hearings - Advisory Board Hearings