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  • Inmate Behavior Management: Brazos County Jail Case Study

    “Violence, vandalism, and other unwanted inmate behaviors prevail in many jails nationwide, and they frustrate jail practitioners who must ensure t

  • Inmate Behavior Management: Guide to Meeting Basic Needs

    "Experience has shown that if a jail does not meet the basic human needs of inmates, the inmates will find a way to satisfy their needs in ways tha

  • Inmate Behavior Management: Defining and Conveying Expectations

    A comprehensive management system, called Inmate Behavior Management (IBM) is being rolled out by the National Institute of Corrections (NIC).

  • Legal Issues in Jails 2013

    Topics covered include: some religious issues in jails--head coverings, skirts, Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA) and i

  • Proceedings of the Large Jail Network Meeting Aurora, Colorado, September 15 - 17, 2013

    Sections of these proceedings are: about this meeting; meeting highlights; “The Affordable Care Act: Health Care Reform and Jails” by Donna Strugar

  • The Corrections Profession: Maintaining Safety and Sanity, Part 2

    This program is the second of a two-part webinar, and covers the physical and emotional challenges faced by correctional personnel.

  • LGBTI Populations: Intake - Creating a Culture of Safety [Internet Broadcast]

    Good correctional practice includes applying principles of risk based classification to all adult and juvenile offenders while accounting for uniqu

  • Learning and Performance: Realigning Training to Achieve Agency Goals [Internet Broadcast]

    This three-hour broadcast is intended to help realign your training with agency outcomes to help your agency become a learning organization.

  • Resilience in Corrections: A Proactive Approach to Changing Conditions

    “This white paper describes the issues facing corrections policy and leadership as the impacts of climate change and its related consequences confr

  • The Employer-Driven Model and Toolkit: Strategies for Developing Employment Opportunities for Justice-Involved Individuals: Use Labor Market Information to Target High-Growth Occupations

    "Using up-to-date labor market information is critical for identifying high-growth occupations, local and regional employment trends, and specific

  • The Employer-Driven Model and Toolkit: Strategies for Developing Employment Opportunities for Justice-Involved Individuals: Address Employers' Needs and Expectations

    "Many employers are apprehensive about hiring persons with criminal convictions, but employment specialists tolerate some failed hires only if they

  • The Employer-Driven Model and Toolkit: Strategies for Developing Employment Opportunities for Justice-Involved Individuals: Prepare Job Seekers for Employment

    "Employers face global competition in their drive to operate successful businesses in today’s marketplace.

  • The Employer-Driven Model and Toolkit: Strategies for Developing Employment Opportunities for Justice-Involved Individuals: Engage and Partner with Stakeholders

    "No single agency can meet all of the workforce development needs of justice-involved individuals returning to the community.

  • Gender-Responsive Policy & Practice (GRPPA)

    The Gender-Responsive Policy & Practice Assessment (GRPPA) outlines the process of evaluating the gender-responsiveness of policies and program

  • Labor Market Information Worksheet

    This worksheet helps a person to determine whether the job they want to get is right for them.

  • Executive Summary: Research Supporting Employment as an Important Component of Evidence-Based Practice

    This document briefly reviews the strong link between offender employment and recidivism.

  • Implementing Apprenticeships: A Transitional Approach with Offenders (Pre-plea to Release from Supervision)

    This document highlights the roles of and activities performed by six federal agencies in the provision of apprenticeships for federal offenders.

  • Evidence Based Decision Making from Principle to Practice

    "NIC partnered with the Center for Effective Public Policy to build a system-wide framework (arrest through final disposition and discharge) that w

  • The Norval Morris Project At the National Institute of Corrections

    Norval Morris was "instrumental in founding the National Institute of Corrections [NIC] in the early 1970s and served as a charter member of the NI

  • Mapping the Criminal Justice System to Connect Justice-Involved Individuals with Treatment and Health Care under the Affordable Care Act

    "By working together to build a visual portrait of how individuals progress through the criminal justice system, health and justice stakeholders ga

  • Proceedings of the Large Jail Network Meeting Aurora, Colorado, March 23 - 25, 2014

    Sections of these proceedings are: about this meeting; meeting highlights; "I.L.P.: Intelligence-Led Policing in a Detention Environment" by Ed Bec

  • Employment Retention Inventory Explores the Predictive Factors of Job Loss: Research Project

    "As justice-involved individuals move through the criminal-justice system, correctional staff use case management tools to monitor progress.

  • APEX Change Team Training: Facilitators Manual [and] Participant Manual [Lesson Plans and Participant Manual]

    The National Institute of Corrections (NIC) and People in Charge LLC are pleased to present the Achieving Performance Excellence (APEX) Change Team

  • Community Corrections Collaborative Network: Safe and Smart Ways to Solve America's Correctional Challenges

    The National Institute of Corrections (NIC) Community Corrections Collaborative Network (CCCN)-a network representing community corrections profess

  • Fundamentals of Bail: A Resource Guide for Pretrial Practitioners and a Framework for American Pretrial Reform

    "Pretrial justice requires that those seeking it be consistent with both their vision and with the concept of pretrial best practices, and this doc

  • Analysis of the Use of the Structured Decision-Making Framework in Three States

    "In recent years, interest in high-quality parole decision-making has grown significantly.

  • Desktop Guide to Quality Practice for Working with Youth in Confinement

    Recent successful juvenile justice and juvenile detention reforms have resulted in better and more meaningful public policy on the use of custody f

  • Proceedings of the Large Jail Network Meeting Aurora, Colorado, September 28-30, 2014

    Sections of these proceedings are: about this meeting; "Legal Issues in Today's Jails: Avoiding Civil Liability" by Carrie Hill; "Domestic Threats

  • Money as a Criminal Justice Stakeholder: The Judge's Decision to Release or Detain a Defendant Pretrial

    "The future of pretrial justice in America will come partly from our deliberative focus on our judges’ decisions to release or detain a criminal de

  • Video Visiting in Corrections: Benefits, Limitations, and Implementation Considerations

    "The purpose of this guide is to inform the development of video visiting programs within a correctional setting.

  • Offender Reentry: The Value of Victim Involvement [Broadcast]

    This three-hour national discussion and broadcast by the National Institute of Corrections (NIC) focuses on the unique opportunities and challenges

  • Green Corrections Symposium Notes

    "On November 21, 2014, the Green Corrections Symposium convened professionals from the corrections community, as well as partners including reentry

  • Measuring for Results: Outcome and Performance Measures for Pretrial Diversion Field

    "This publication outlines suggested outcome and performance measures and critical operational data for pretrial diversion programs.

  • Occupational Stressors in Corrections Work Annotated Bibliography

    "Corrections work of all disciplines, whether in institutional or in community-based settings, has been recognized as being exceptionally stressful

  • Gender-Responsive Policy Development in Corrections: What We Know and Roadmaps for Change

    "Correctional policy and procedure drives decisions in the management and rehabilitation of offender populations.

  • Evidence-Based Decision Making in Local Criminal Justice Systems Initiative

    This brief covers results from the report "Evaluation of Phase II Technical Assistance for Evidence-Based Decision-Making in Local Criminal Justice

  • Veterans Treatment Courts: A Second Chance for Vets Who Have Lost Their Way [Internet Broadcast]

    This program on justice-involved veterans, highlights the lifesaving role being played by veterans treatment courts (VTCs) across the country.

  • Correctional Industries: A Guide to Reentry-Focused Performance Excellence

    This guide "is specifically designed to empower each Correctional Industries organization, no matter the size or structure, to design and implement

  • New Directions in Corrections: Staff Wellness: NIC's Second Virtual Conference

    On June 10, 2015, the National Institute of Corrections (NIC) launched a national virtual conference on staff wellness titled “New Directions in Co

  • Veterans Treatment Courts: A Second Chance for Vets Who Have Lost Their Way

    "This white paper is based on a series of interviews, buttressed by personal observations, of key players in half a dozen jurisdictions where Veter

  • Hepatitis C in Corrections: Innovations in Treatment and Management of a Public Health Challenge [Internet Broadcast]

    Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is the most common blood-borne infection in the United States, with approximately three million persons living wi

  • Jails in America: A Report on Podular Direct Supervision

    This video is an excellent introduction to the use of podular direct supervision.

  • The Growth of Veterans Treatment Courts [Podcast]

    "Veterans Treatment Courts are one of the fastest growing criminal justice programs in the United States.

  • Policy Review and Development Guide: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Intersex Persons in Custodial Settings, 2nd Edition

    "In the first edition of this guide, we aimed to reach out to correctional agencies in order to help them identify, address, and respond to abuse o

  • Evidence-Based Decision Making in Local Criminal Justice Systems

    "EBDM is a strategic and deliberate method of applying empirical knowledge and research-supported principles to justice system decisions made at th