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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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2012
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Mortality In Local Jails And State Prisons, 2000-2010 - Statistical Tables
By Noonan, Margaret E..
Statistics about the 4,150 inmate deaths occurring in local jails and state prisons during 2000-2010 are presented. Some of the findings show that most inmates expired in state prisons (78%) with suicide being the leading cause of death in jails and cancer being the most common in prisons.... Read More
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28 pages
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2012
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Documenting a Suspect’s State of Mind
By Dietz, Park.
With the new requirements for documentation resulting from the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) and other state mandates, those correctional officers that investigate violent crimes and allegations of prison rape need to be aware of the procedure explained in this article. These officers “typically obtain as many details as possible from suspects about actions committed during the crime. However, these details do not always include relevant information about a defendant’s mental state, and suc... Read More
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4 pages
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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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2011
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Incident Review of Death of Correctional Officer Jayme Biendl, January 29, 2011
By Palmateer, Joan; Upchurch, James; Elzie, Michelle.
NIC Review Team (N.P.).
Circumstances surrounding the untimely death of Correctional Officer Jayme Biendl at the hands of an inmate are the focus of this incident review. This report “identifies systems, policies, practices, protocol, and technology within MCC/WRS [Monroe Correctional Complex/Washington State Reformatory] which would reasonably have been connected to factors surrounding safety and security for staff and others within that compound” (p. 3). Sections following an executive summary are: pre-planning agend... Read More
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26 pages
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2011
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Arrest-Related Deaths, 2003-2009 - Statistical Tables
By Burch, Andrea M..
U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics (Washington, DC).
Information regarding the “circumstances of deaths that occur during, or shortly after, state or local law enforcement officers engage in an arrest or restraint process” is presented. Sixty-one percent (61%) of arrest-related deaths were due to homicides by law enforcement personnel, with 11% due to suicide, 11% due to intoxication, 6% due to accidental injuries, and 5% due to natural causes.... Read More
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16 pages
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2011
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The Prison Experience and Reentry: Examining the Impact of Victimization on Coming Home
By Listwan, Shelley Johnson; Hanley, Dena; Colvin, Mark.
National Institute of Justice (Washington, DC).
The impact of prison victimization on how an offender behaves when released back into the community is examined. Sections following an abstract include: executive summary; introduction; review of the relevant literature; methodology; results for design and sample selection, prison victimization data, characteristics of selected victimization incidents, and re-entry outcomes; conclusion; and implications for policy and practice. A few of the observations made from the research are: about 58% of t... Read More
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175 pages
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2010
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Mortality in Local Jails, 2000-2007
By Noonan, Margaret.
U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics (Washington, DC).
Statistics about the 8,110 inmate deaths occurring in local jails during 2000-2007 are presented. Some findings are: over 80% of U.S. jails had no deaths in their custody; 53% of all deaths were due to illness with heart disease being the leading cause; and “suicide was the only cause of death that occurred at a higher rate in local jails than in the U.S. general population” (p.1).... Read More
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19 p.
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2009
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Deaths in Custody -- Statistical Tables
U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics (Washington, DC).
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2009
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Homicides in Prison
Oklahoma Dept. of Corrections (Oklahoma City, OK).
Factors related to the substantial decrease in the number of prison inmate homicides are examined. Sections of this report following an abstract include: historical statistical overview; conditions associated with homicides in custody; and conclusion. "The research indicates that inmate homicides tend to be contextual and not the result of consistently identifiable and preventable influences" (p. 4).... Read More
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5 p.
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2009
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Unconventional Delivery of Deadly Force in a Correctional Facility
By Barnhardt, Tracey E.; Klugiewicz, Gary T..
corrections.com (Quincy, MA).
This article discusses “how and when to use deadly force in a correctional facility and most importantly how to defend your actions” (p.1). Topics covered include: while taking a life is very rare, at times it must be done; the “unbeatable attitude”; survival in a life threatening situation; three types of force response that can be justified; the “Totality of the Circumstances” and justification the ones use of force; and the bottom line— correctional officers should never personally put themse... Read More
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4 p.
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1995
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Managers Guide to Disturbance Control
National Institute of Corrections (Washington, DC).
This report briefly describes the philosophy and policy of handling disturbances, as well as the command centers, communications, tactics, equipment, and support services needed during a disturbance. Other topics discussed are inmate management, and mutual aid from other facilities and outside agencies.... Read More
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23 p.
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1987
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Comprehensive Integrated Crisis Defusion Instructor Training Program
By Schwartz, Jeffrey A.; Schwartz, Cynthia B..
National Institute of Corrections (Washington, DC).
Hawaii Dept. of Corrections (Honolulu, HI).
The purpose of this project is to develop a curriculum that will be used to instruct correctional staff in a variety of non-violent alternatives for dealing with potentially violent inmate situations.... Read More
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110 p.
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1981
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Functional Unit Management: A Training Response Model for Managing Prison Violence
By Maghan, Jesse L..
National Institute of Corrections (Washington, DC).
Title of project: Development of Training Programs and Materials in Response to Prison Violence.... Read More
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