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Police-Corrections Partnerships

Publication year: 1999 | Cataloged on: Oct. 31, 2006
ANNOTATION: The authors describe the potential benefits and problems, the challenges in developing, and the legal and research issues of the future of police-corrections partnerships. They categorize the 14 partnerships detailed in this report into five types; enhanced supervision partnerships, fugitive apprehension units, information sharing partnerships, specialized enforcements partnerships, and interagency problem solving partnerships. Enhanced supervision partnerships include: Operation Night Light, Boston Massachusetts; Minneapolis Anti-Violence Initiative, Minneapolis, Minnesota; Clark County Anti-gang Unit, Vancouver, Washington; Project One Voice, New Haven, Connecticut; Smart Partners Program, Bellevue and Redmond, Washington; and Neighborhood Probation, Maricopa County, Phoenix, Arizona. Fugitive apprehension units include: Parolee-At-Larger Apprehension Teams, California Department of Correction; Fugitive Recovery Enforcement team, San Francisco, California; and the Fugitive Apprehension Program, Hennepin County, Minnesota. Information sharing partnerships include: Sex Offender Registration and Notification, Washington State Department of Corrections and the Serious Habitual Offender Program. California Department of Justice. The Washington State Prison Anti-gang Program and the Connecticut Department of Corrections Anti-gang Program represent prison anti-gang partnerships while Operation Revitalization, Vallejo, California is an example of specialized enforcement partnerships. The Parole and Community Services Law Enforcement Consortium, California, is a quarterly forum in which all major enforcement and correctional organizations confer to identify and find solutions for problems of mutual concern.
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