Jail Leaders Speak: Current and Future Challenges to Jail Operations and Administration: A Summary Report to the Bureau of Justice Assistance
Publication year:
2008
| Cataloged on:
Mar. 19, 2008
ANNOTATION: Major challenges facing U.S. jails now and in the future are discussed. Sections following an executive summary are: project overview; methodology; and Phase I -- Preliminary Results (i.e., identifying top issues, final reporting formats, and recommendations for inmate and mental health, workforce-related, small jails, programming, and other); Phase II-“Drilling Down”-Final Recommendations; and summary and conclusions. The final list of top priority issues includes inmate mental health, leadership, technology, cultural competency, reentry, jail advocacy, and evidence-based practice and related data.