Prisons

Exercises play a critical role in emergency preparedness and response by giving the whole emergency management community an opportunity to shape plans, validate capabilities, and identify areas for improvement. Federal Emergency Management Agency's (FEMA) Homeland Security Exercise and Evaluation Program (HSEEP) offers a consistent framework for managing exercises, from design and development to execution through evaluation and improvement planning.

This paper is the fourth in the National Institute of Corrections justice-involved veteran compendium project. It illuminates programs in prisons across the country whose goal is to prevent recidivism by justice-involved veterans, and by so doing improve the safety of law enforcement officers, correctional officers, inmates, and the public. It illustrates the design/development, implementation, and sustainment of initiatives taken by corrections officials who have set up specialized housing-in pods, dorms, units, wings, or floors-and programming for military veterans.