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During this VILT course via Webex, participants from corrections settings of all types will explore the critical issues related to building the internal capacity for enhanced ...

This 32-hour training program teaches the importance of in-depth planning before starting facility design.

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 suppleme...

Are you ready to make the shift to more technologically driven ways of delivering learning and performance solutions in your corrections workforce? During this VILT course via...

This 40-hour course will include modules on defining the chair’s role, establishing operational philosophy, promoting optimal performance, navigating the external and politica...

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During this VILT course via Webex, participants from corrections settings of all types will explore the critical issues related to building the internal capacity for enhanced ...

This 32-hour training program teaches the importance of in-depth planning before starting facility design.

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 suppleme...

Are you ready to make the shift to more technologically driven ways of delivering learning and performance solutions in your corrections workforce? During this VILT course via...

This 40-hour course will include modules on defining the chair’s role, establishing operational philosophy, promoting optimal performance, navigating the external and politica...

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Activities of the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) related to prison rape during the 2012 calendar year are documented. SOURCE: U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) ...

This publication presents graphics regarding: the number of incarcerated youth from 1975-2010; disparities in confinement by race from 1997 to 2010; of those youth incarcerate...

“This study adds to the existing juvenile drug court literature by providing a national multi-site outcome and process evaluation of nine juvenile drug courts from across the ...

Factors leading to a reduction in the number of prisoners in New South Wales (NSW) following a fifteen year increase of 65% are ascertained. sections of this brief include: in...

This is a great introduction to the process by which an organization can evaluate whether a program is evidence-based is explained. “Although this guide grows out of and is ta...

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From the National Reentry Resource Center: The Council of State Governments Justice Center (CSG Justice Center), the Urban Institute, and the U.S. Department of Justice, ...

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Enroll Now in One or More of NIC s Virtual Instructor Led Training Courses! Registration is now open in the NIC Learning Center (http://nic.learn.com ) for our 10 newly up...

The National Institute of Corrections (NIC) is soliciting proposals from organizations, groups, or individuals to enter into a cooperative agreement for an 18-month period t...

Updated 6/11: (See questions and answers below) The National Institute of Corrections (NIC) is soliciting proposals from organizations, groups, or individuals to enter int...

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The National Institute of Corrections (NIC) is soliciting proposals from organizations, groups, or individuals to enter into a cooperative agreement for an 18-month period t...

Updated 6/11: (See questions and answers below) The National Institute of Corrections (NIC) is soliciting proposals from organizations, groups, or individuals to enter int...

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Is your facility near a major highway? Near train tracks? In the flight path of an airport? Tornado alley? Flood zone? Hurricanes? Bomb/WMD threat? What about simply being ...

Enroll Now in One or More of NIC s Virtual Instructor Led Training Courses! Registration is now open in the NIC Learning Center (http://nic.learn.com ) for our 10 newly up...

The National Institute of Corrections (NIC) is soliciting proposals from organizations, groups, or individuals to enter into a cooperative agreement for an 18-month period t...

Updated 6/11: (See questions and answers below) The National Institute of Corrections (NIC) is soliciting proposals from organizations, groups, or individuals to enter int...

The National Institute of Corrections (NIC) is seeking applications from organizations, groups, or individuals to enter into a cooperative agreement with NIC for an 18-month...

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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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2012	Documentary Disenfranchisement By Allen, Jessie. University of Pittsburgh. School of Law (Pittsburgh, PA). Documentary disenfranchisement is the “permanent enforcement of nominally temporary voting bans … accomplished through election officials’ demands for nonexistent eligibility documents from people with criminal convictions” (p. 391). Individuals working with ex-offenders that are under a temporary ban from voting should read this article to become acquainted with case law that may impact their clients. Sections of this article include: introduction; background—the standard picture of felony dise... Read More	77 pages
2009	Prolonged Solitary Confinement and the Constitution By Lobel, Jules. University of Pittsburgh. School of Law (Pittsburgh, PA). The "increasing practice of prolonged or permanent solitary confinement [i.e., supermax prisons] constitutes cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the Constitution, and whether it violates the due process rights of the prisoners so confined" is addressed (p. 116). This article is divided into three parts: indefinite, permanent solitary confinement and the Eighth Amendment; meaningful review and the Constitution; and mental pain and the Eighth Amendment. The author finds that prolonged s... Read More	25 p.

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2012

Documentary Disenfranchisement

By Allen, Jessie. University of Pittsburgh. School of Law (Pittsburgh, PA).

Documentary disenfranchisement is the “permanent enforcement of nominally temporary voting bans … accomplished through election officials’ demands for nonexistent eligibility documents from people with criminal convictions” (p. 391). Individuals working with ex-offenders that are under a temporary ban from voting should read this article to become acquainted with case law that may impact their clients. Sections of this article include: introduction; background—the standard picture of felony dise... Read More

77 pages

2009

Prolonged Solitary Confinement and the Constitution

By Lobel, Jules. University of Pittsburgh. School of Law (Pittsburgh, PA).

The "increasing practice of prolonged or permanent solitary confinement [i.e., supermax prisons] constitutes cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the Constitution, and whether it violates the due process rights of the prisoners so confined" is addressed (p. 116). This article is divided into three parts: indefinite, permanent solitary confinement and the Eighth Amendment; meaningful review and the Constitution; and mental pain and the Eighth Amendment. The author finds that prolonged s... Read More

25 p.

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