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This training program helps participants build competencies and skills in performing the tasks that matter most.

With NIC’s hands-on, onsite training, gain the experience of auditing out-of-state institutions of various security levels and missions. This 36-hour training program supplements classroom instruction in auditing protocol with tours of assigned facilities and real-world assignments that put newly trained participants in charge of the auditing proce...

The Offender Employment Retention Specialist Training will provide practitioners the knowledge, skill and abilities to develop specialized services and programming for offenders targeted as being at high risk for job loss.

Many jails operate with severely limited resources. In such a fiscal environment, the jail administrator must be especially skilled in managing scarce resources.

About the National Corrections Academy

We provide training in leadership, management and specialized corrections topics for state, local and federal corrections. Training covers a broad range of correctional disciplines and topics, including leadership, jail and prison programming, offender reentry, and mental health.
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Aurora, CO 80014
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This training program helps participants build competencies and skills in performing the tasks that matter most.

Many jails operate with severely limited resources. In such a fiscal environment, the jail administrator must be especially skilled in managing scarce resources.

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Our technical assistance includes onsite guidance, support, consultation, or training provided by an experienced technical resource provider or NIC staff member who serves in an advisory capacity and works with agency staff.

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This website is a great resource for information about the employment of individuals with criminal records. It contains: a regularly updated list of federal and state policy reforms; city hiring initiatives; employment rights of workers with criminal records; transportation worker background checks; additional NELP resources; news; and materials fo...

Topics covered by this brief include: the incidence of mental illness in prisons; the increasing rate of offenders considered to be mentally ill; classification of mentally ill inmates is based on a mental health screen; 35% of females admitted are mentally ill; significant amounts of states funds spent on prison-based mental health treatment; high...

This Offender Exit Survey is given to an offender upon their release from community supervision. It is comprised of 11 questions ranging from “I was treated with respect by my supervising officer” to “Overall, I was pleased with how my supervision went.”

Effective prison leadership and administrative skills are discussed during this 36-hour training program. Topics covered include: wellness; institutional culture; ethics and integrity; fiscal management; labor and workforce management; central ofice; constituents; media; and balancing work and personal life.

Effective implementation of data and cost-benefit analysis in correctional settings is discussed during a 83 minute video. Presentations included in this session are “Improve Outcomes and Save Money” by Steve Aos, and “A Case (Study) for Cost-Benefit Analysis in Justice Policy & Planning” by Tina Chiu. Links are provided to the presenters’ slides.

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It is a library of unpublished materials developed by correctional agencies including: research reports and analyses, program descriptions and evaluations, training material, and NIC publications. You may request assistance with locating offline material.

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Looking for the latest statistics for your state s crime or incarceration rate? See the NIC s Corrections Statistics by State. In addition to an interactive map to select the state of your choice, you can view the state statistics in a table format and easily compare your state with others. Jails, prisons, and community corrections data are in...

This brief list of resources, Thinking for a Change and Cognitive-Behavioral Programs, contains research supporting Thinking for a Change as well as some CBT programs for offenders generally. The Thinking for a Change: An Integrated Approach to Changing Offender Behavior (T4C) curriculum, developed by Barry Glick, Jack Bush, and Juliana Tayma...

This DC Public Radio program interviews Nancy G. La Vigne, Director, Justice Policy Center of The Urban Institute. The topic is Research on Women Offenders as documented by Returning Home: Understanding the Challenges of Prisoner Reentry, which represents the only published empirical research with a sample size sufficient to identify sta...

By Donald Coffey and Joel F. Botner, Re-Entry Unit, Miami-Dade County Corrections and Rehabilitation Department, Miami, Florida In this article, Coffey and Botner share some of Miami-Dade County s lessons learned in working with jail inmates who are veterans. They discuss: - The challenges jails may face in identifying veterans in the...

Medicaid Expansion and the Local Criminal Justice System (American Jails Nov/Dec 2011) By Michael DuBose, CEO, Community Oriented Correctional Health Services The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) of 2010 includes provisions with a major potential impact on local jails: In 2014, cities, counties, and states will have an ...

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We manage and support a community for corrections professionals to share information, ask questions, and work together online. This site has public and private forums that facilitate discussions on correctional topics and to seek answers from fellow members. We also maintain blogs which are used to share information about NIC activities, announce opportunities, and solicit feedback from the field. Membership is fast, free, and open to all.

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Building the Model and Beginning the Journey is the first book in the APEX series for Achieving Performance Excellence, providing an overview of the APEX Journey a roadmap for correctional agencies to use as they begin an organizational change initiative. Each of the eight domains in the APEX Public Safety Model is described. The Leadership do...

Beginning February 21, the National Institute of Corrections (NIC) will be hosting the Evidence Based Decision Making in Local Criminal Justice Systems Phase III Kick-off workshop in Aurora, CO. The purpose of the workshop is to provide the groundwork for the seven Evidence Based Decision Making in Local Criminal Justice System sites to facilit...

Updated 2/8, 2/2: Questions and Answers appended The National Institute of Corrections (NIC) Academy Division is seeking applications for the development of a competency-based, blended modality training curriculum that will provide corrections professionals with the knowledge, skills, and abilities needed to facilitate offender groups using th...

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The field of corrections faces many challenges and the National Institute of Corrections (NIC) coordinates and provides consulting, research, funding and training in an effort to address key issues. The results of these initiatives provide the field with valuable information and resources when dealing with these challenges.

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We are an agency within the U.S. Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Prisons. The Institute is headed by a Director appointed by the U.S. Attorney General. A 16-member Advisory Board, also appointed by the Attorney General, was established by the enabling legislation (Public Law 93-415) to provide policy direction to the Institute.

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