This report surveys the current landscape of correctional education, discussing both the educational needs of people involved in the criminal justice system and the programs being provided to meet those needs.

Victim advocates in many California counties have been playing catch-up and putting out fires since Realignment went into effect over a year ago. Their primary concern is that many counties do not have the infrastructure in place for meaningful implementation of the rights set forth in Marsy’s Law, particularly the rights to restitution and notification. These problems and more are exacerbated by the fact that victims do not have an advocate with voting power on the Community Corrections Partnership, so their needs are typically a low priority in the allocation of resources.

Providing incentives and rewarding specific desired behavior motivates individuals to work toward long term behavior change. These strategies focus on public safety, victim protection and restitution, offender accountability, consistent and effective sanctioning, addressing substance abuse issues, reducing offender unemployment and most critically, reducing recidivism through long term behavior modification."

National Conference of State Legislatures webpage on pretrial release law as it pertains to victims.Victim notification and participation rights and release hearings requirements are identified.

This report defines the essential elements of the HOPE strategy and defines additional recommended, but not essential, elements that enhance HOPE and ensure its success, and also describes in detail how the originating HOPE Probation strategy has evolved over 10 years of innovation and practice in Honolulu, Hawaii. The experience from Honolulu’s HOPE Probation provides an example for how other jurisdictions implementing HOPE can adjust and adapt to changing needs and make improvements to their own HOPE strategy over time.

Maine Office of the Revisor of Statutes.

This statute (1172) covers notification of victims under Maine's Criminal Code on Victims' Rights.

Policies and procedures for victim notification. Kansas Department of Corrections 2011.

This bulletin will provide a brief introduction to the risk, need, and responsivity principles espoused in the evidenced-based principles for community supervision.

The current paper critically reviews the Risk-Need-Responsivity (RNR) and Good Lives Model (GLM) approaches to correctional treatment.

The Risk-Need-Responsivity principle was developed by Donald Arthur Andrews and James Bonta in 1990. It integrates the psychology of criminal conduct into an understanding of how to reduce recidivism. Using this concept, they identify three principles to guide the assessment and treatment of offenders to advance rehabilitative goals as well as reduce risk to society: risk principle, need principle, and responsivity principle (RNR).