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2013
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An Update on Jail Strip Searches of General Population Detainees
“In 2012, the U.S. Supreme Court, in a 5-4 vote, decided Florence v. Board of Chosen Freeholders, #10-945, 132 S. Ct. 1510, 2012 U.S. Lexis 2712. It changed the landscape, abandoning a focus on the need for a detailed analysis of the presence or absence of reasonable suspicion to justify the carrying out of a strip search. For the Court’s majority, the focus shifted to a less murky dividing line, based on whether an incoming detainee, regardless of what they are charged with or whether there is ... Read More
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9 pages
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2013
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Windham School District Evaluation
Texas Legislative Budget Board (Austin, TX).
Vocation education programming in Texas’ Windham School District (WSD) is evaluated. An agency can use this report to compare its own offender vocational programming to the efforts in Texas and to see what education services are effective. A detailed research summary contained the following sections: introduction; vocational program participation—Career and Technical Education (CTE) program; methodology; vocational participation and completion; employment status after release; employment in occu... Read More
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86 pages
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2013
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Texas At-Risk Youth Services Project: A Second Look
Texas Legislative Budget Board (Austin, TX).
The intent of the Texas At-Risk Youth Services Project (ARYSP) is to generate recommendations for the Texas legislature regarding the improvement of services for at-risk youth. At-risk youth are those who “have the significant potential to enter or further penetrate the juvenile and/or criminal justice system. The recommendations contained in this report primarily focus on delinquency prevention and intervention. Prevention of delinquent behavior and intervention for risk factors correlated with... Read More
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45 pages
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2013
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Statewide Criminal Justice Recidivism and Revocation Rates
Texas Legislative Budget Board (Austin, TX).
“This report summarizes the analysis of reincarceration rates for adult offenders who were released from prisons, state jails, Substance Abuse Felony Punishment Facilities, In-Prison Therapeutic Community program, and Intermediate Sanction Facilities in fiscal years 2006 and 2007; and rearrest rates for adult offenders released from prisons and state jails in fiscal years 2005 and 2006. In addition, this report summarizes reincarceration rates for juveniles released from the Texas Youth Commissi... Read More
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118 pages
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2013
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Criminal Justice Uniform Cost Report: Fiscal Years 2010 to 2012
Texas Legislative Budget Board (Austin, TX).
Cost per day information for various adult and juvenile correctional populations is determined. Sections of this report include: introduction—reporting guidelines and highlights; Texas Department of Criminal Justice—overview, Correctional Institutions Division (state-operated facilities), Parole Division, and Community Justice Assistance Division; and the Texas Juvenile Justice Department—state services and facilities, and community juvenile justice. Appendixes provide: uniform cost project meth... Read More
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56 pages
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2013
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Adult and Juvenile Correctional Population Projections: Fiscal Years 2013 to 2018
Texas Legislative Budget Board (Austin, TX).
Projections for the changes in Texas’ adult and juvenile correctional populations are presented. Sections contained in this report are: introduction and report highlights; arrest rates in Texas; adult correctional population projections; juvenile correctional population projections; qualitative review summary; and glossary. Appendixes explain what the methodology and assumptions for each correctional population projection.... Read More
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49 pages
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2013
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Nationwide PLN Survey Examines Prison Phone Contracts, Kickbacks
By Dannenberg, John E..
The exceeding high rates for phone calls charged to prisoners and their families are examined. Sections comprising this report are: how phone rates are regulated; the prison phone bidding process; the history behind kickback commissions; the arbitrary nature of prison phone rates; whether all prison phone companies are the same; whether all states are the same; the case of Florida, a state in flux; what happens without kickbacks; prison phone rates on the federal level; legal challenges mostly u... Read More
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17 pages
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2013
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The Shift Length Experiment: What We Know about 8-, 10-, and 12-hour Shifts in Policing
Police Foundation (Washington, DC).
While this research focused on policing, the results are applicable to correctional settings. “The Police Foundation experiment was designed to test the impacts of three shift lengths (8-, 10-, and 12-hour) on performance, health, safety, quality of life, sleep, fatigue, alertness, off-duty employment, and overtime among police … The study found some distinct advantages of 10-hour shifts and identified some disadvantages associated with 12-hour shifts that are concerning. It is important that ag... Read More
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2012
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Examining Growth in the Federal Prison Population, 1998 to 2010
By Mallik-Kane, Kamala; Parthasaranthy, Barbara; Adams, William.
U.S. Bureau of Justice Assistance (Washington, DC).
Urban Institute. Justice Policy Center (Washington, DC).
This “analysis describes how the size and composition of the federal prison population have changed over time and apportions this population growth into shares associated with the different stages of the criminal justice process that determine who is sent to prison and the duration of their incarceration … The increase in expected time served by drug offenders was the single greatest contributor to growth in the federal prison population between 1998 and 2010” (p. 3). Sections of this report inc... Read More
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34 pages
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2012
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Five Significant Changes in the Last 20 Years
By Bengis, Steven; Prescott, David S.; Tabachnick, Joan.
The “most dramatic” changes over 20 years in the understanding of youth who have sexually abused are described. What is so useful about this article is that the authors place related references within the sections they are related to. This makes it easier for the reader to look up the citations for additional information as they are reading. Changes discussed are: adolescents are not little adults; most adolescents do not re-offend sexually; assessment remains complicated—while current measures ... Read More
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4 pages
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2012
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The Growth & Increasing Cost of the Federal Prison System: Drivers and Potential Solutions
By La Vigne, Nancy; Samuels, Julie.
Public Welfare Foundation (Washington, DC).
Urban Institute. Justice Policy Center (Washington, DC).
This publication looks at the dramatic growth in the inmate population of the U.S. Bureau of Prisons (BOP) and provides “options for stemming future growth that are consistent with public safety goals: (p. 1). Topics discussed include: BOP projection of continued growth; incarceration in federal prisons is expensive—on average $26,000 per year per inmate compared to probation supervision at $3400 per offender in the community; BOP growth creating increased opportunity costs—an increase of 4.2% f... Read More
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8 pages
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2012
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Matrix Intensive Outpatient Treatment for People with Stimulant Use Disorders Manuals|Series: Matrix Manuals
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) (Rockville, MD).
'The Matrix Intensive Outpatient Treatment for People With Stimulant Use Disorders (IOP) package provides a structured approach for treating adults who abuse or are dependent on stimulant drugs ' The Matrix IOP model and this treatment package based on that model grew from a need for structured, evidence-based treatment for clients who abuse or are dependent on stimulant drugs, particularly methamphetamine and cocaine. This comprehensive package provides substance abuse treatment professionals w... Read More
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2012
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The Price to Call Home: State-Sanctioned Monopolization in the Prison Phone Industry
By Kukorowski, Drew.
Prison Policy Initiative (Northampton. MA).
“Exorbitant calling rates make the prison telephone industry one of the most lucrative businesses in the United States today … The prison telephone market is structured to be exploitative because it grants monopolies to producers, and because the consumers — the incarcerated persons and their families who are actually footing the bills — have no comparable alternative ways of communicating.” This report looks at the abusive corporate monopolization of prison telephone services and offers sugges... Read More
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10 pages
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2012
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The Efficacy of Managed Access Systems to Intercept Calls from Contraband Cell Phones in California Prisons
U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). Grant Programs Directorate (Washington, DC).
California Council on Science and Technology (CCST) (Sacramento, CA).
The use of technology, in particular Managed Access Systems, to prevent the use of contraband cell phones in California’s prisons is examined. This report contains sections about: key report findings; recommendations; legislative request; project approach; statement of problem; legal and regulatory; overview of contraband cell phone and wireless technology; stopping illicit cell phone use in prisons; what is happening nationally and in other states; review of Managed Access System (MAS) technolo... Read More
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79 pages
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2012
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From Case Management to Change Agent: The Evolution Of 'What Works' Community Supervision
By Bourgon, Guy; Gutierrez, Leticia; Ashton, Jennifer.
Public Safety Canada (Ottawa, Ontario).
The development of community corrections officers from case managers to change agents is explained. This transformation is due to the use of cognitive-behavioral techniques. Sections of this publication following an abstract include: “What Works” and community supervision; the evolving work of community supervision officers; what’s critical for the change agent community supervision officer; cognitive-behavioural interventions; from assessment to change plan; the STICS (Strategic Training Initia... Read More
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19 pages
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2012
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Detention Equipment Contractors Report for 2012
Airteq Systems (Garner, NC).
Correctional News (San Rafael, CA).
This report contains tables regarding: contact list of detention equipment contractors (DECs) divided by revenues; top 10 values of largest contracts awarded during the past year; top 10 DEC current bonding capacities; top 10 DECs with the greatest number of employees; value of current jobs under contract (top 10 DECs); value of largest contract in the past year for all DECs; services provided by all DECs; largest annual revenue (top 10 DECs); top five states with highest project values; the six... Read More
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7 pages
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2011
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Creating a Trauma-Informed Criminal Justice System for Women: Why and How|Draft
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) (Rockville, MD).
GAINS Center for Behavioral Health and Justice Transformation (Rockville, MD).
“Why do far too many women keep cycling through the criminal justice system, wrestling with persistent mental health and substance abuse issues, unable to find a footing in the community and reclaim their lives?” This publication answers this question and offers a solution—the “Sequential Intercept Model.” This strategy concentrates on five “intercept” points that women could have with the criminal justice system. At each point assistance is offered to these women that enable them to begin their... Read More
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6 pages
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2011
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Bureau of Prisons: Improved Evaluations and Increased Coordination Could Improve Cell Phone Detection
U.S. Government Accountability Office (Washington, DC).
Issues surrounding the detection and use of contraband cell phones in federal prisons are examined. Sections of this report include: background; Bureau of Prisons (BOP) telephone rates typically are less than other correctional systems’ rates and fund inmate wages and recreation so lowering rates would decrease costs for inmate calls but could reduce revenue; BOP and selected states confiscated thousands of cell phones in 2010 and believe that rising inmate cell phone usage threatens institution... Read More
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44 pages
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2011
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Sexual Offending
This publication provides a great introduction to issues surrounding juvenile sex offenders. Topics covered include: characteristics of male and female juvenile sexual offenders; comorbidity; assessment'clinical assessment and assessment of the juvenile's home or living arrangement; treatments'recommended components, promising treatment approaches, and other treatment related information; and controversial treatments.... Read More
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9 pages
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2010
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Contraband Cell Phones in Prisons: Possible Wireless Technology Solutions
U.S. Dept. of Commerse (Washington, DC).
Anyone looking for ideas on how to deal with the use by inmates of contraband cell phones should read this document. “This report discusses the characteristics and capabilities of the various technologies and considers the potential interference effects that they may have in authorized radio services” (p. 1). Sections following an executive summary are: introduction; federal efforts; jamming; managed access; detention; other technologies like standardized protocols, hybrid systems, non-linear j... Read More
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58 pages
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2010
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Technical Issues in Checking Contraband Cell Phone Use in Jails and Prisons
By Bittner, Terry L..
corrections.com.
This article highlights the pros and cons of jamming the use of cell phones by inmates. Topics discussed include: the effectiveness of jamming; the jamming of homes and businesses close to the correctional facility; the negation of useful intelligence; radio frequency (RF) utilization; and specially trained dogs for detecting contraband cell phones.... Read More
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3 p.
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2010
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Cell Phones as Prison Contraband
By Burke, Tod W.; Owen, Stephen S..
Federal Bureau of Investigation (Washington, DC).
The authors “focused particularly on the methods of concealment, as well as preventive strategies, including detection and proposed legislation, to minimize the harm of cell phone use by inmates” (p.1). The following sections are contained in this article: possession by prisoners; seriousness of the problem; concealment by inmates; detection by authorities; jamming and legal considerations; additional concerns; recommendations; and conclusion.... Read More
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5 p.
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2010
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Has the Cell Phone Buster War Gone Bust? Corrections Officials Are Fighting a Losing Battle against Inmate Cell Calls, and the Technologies They Need to Win the War Are Misunderstood
By Rogers, Donna.
Anyone concerned with the use of cell phones by inmates should read this article. It addresses why there seems to be no agreement on how to find and get rid of inmates’ cell phones. These topics are discussed among others: swirling controversies; technology overview; managed access; and way finding.... Read More
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4 p.
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2009
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Cell Phones Behind Bars
National Institute of Justice (Washington, DC).
Cell phone use in prisons is discussed. This publication is comprised of these sections: a widespread problem; contraband; shutting down cell phones; and countering the problem.... Read More
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2 p.
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