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  • document cover for Inmate Behavior Management: The Key to a Safe and Secure Jail
    Accession Number
    023882

    This guide “presents six key elements that, in combination, will help jails reduce a wide array of negative, destructive, and dangerous inmate behavior” (p. v). These elements are: assessing risk and needs; assigning inmates to housing; meeting inmates’ basic needs; defining and conveying expectations for inmate behavior; supervising inmates; and keeping inmates productively occupied.

  • an officer and incarcerated persons reading in a circle
    Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) reduces recidivism in both juveniles and adults. The therapy assumes that most people can become conscious of their own thoughts and behaviors and then make positive changes to them. This page provides CBT resources for correctional facilities.