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014596 Staff Victimization $0.00
014613 Gangs, Community and Corrections [Videoconference held June 10, 1998] $0.00
014806 Psychopaths: Their Nature and Impact on Corrections [Videoconference held August 5, 1998] $0.00
016070 Application and Use of Restraints in Custody: Reducing the Risk
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    020209 Community Supervision: Using a Strength-Based, Family-Focused Approach
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    Introduction to the Cost Containment Framework

    The Framework

    Cost Containment Framework Tools

    The Corrections Cost Containment Project is a web-based resource hosted by the National Institute of Corrections. The purpose of the Project is to assist prison, jails, and community corrections agencies with identifying, prioritizing, and implementing cost management and reduction strategies in a way that minimizes agency disruptions. To aid this effort the Project contains a cost containment tool – or framework – along with supporting materials and resources.
    Using the Framework as a continuous process of informed decision-making and feedback can help agencies make the best use of their resources and weather financial storms without compromising their mission.

    A Continuous Step-by-Step Process

    The Framework presents a step-by-step process that will help users consider and make meaningful, yet manageable funding decisions. Some of these steps are basic. Agency executives and their financial managers may find they have several components and structures discussed in the various steps already in place, particularly those in the initial stages. Decision-makers may not find it necessary to work-through the entire process for every decision. Others who are new to the process of cost containment may find the full Framework helpful.

    Develop A Thoughtful Approach to Strategic Cost Management

    Under ideal conditions ongoing implementation of the principles and processes described in the Framework can help agencies develop a thoughtful approach to strategic cost management. However financial “emergencies” are commonplace in corrections. An offender may suffer an injury or develop a chronic condition that strains the medical budget, unanticipated staff issues may result in increased overtime and unplanned for hiring costs, or agency’s funding body requires an immediate 10% budget cut. Parts of the Framework might prove helpful in thinking through the agency response even when working against tight deadlines and mandates.

    Weigh Decisions Against Agency Mission

    Decisions about corrections policy, services, and programs must all be weighed against their contribution to achieving the agency’s mission and meeting its mandates. Cost management decisions are particularly important because they cross-cut, and provide life-blood to the entire operation. Hasty, poorly considered budget cuts often have unanticipated consequences which can offset or even negate any savings. More than a “sign-off” or quick approval is needed from agency leadership. Effective cost management requires an understanding of the agency’s overall operations and inter-connectedness offered by the chief executive and senior staff, plus the in-depth working knowledge of managers and multiple stakeholders to assess the possible result of budgetary decisions.


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