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Policies

  • Correctional Health Care: Guidelines for the Management of an Adequate Delivery System

    A comprehensive reference that provides guidance in the provision of health services to inmates is presented.
  • Staff Sexual Misconduct with Inmates: Policy Development Guide for Sheriffs and Jail Administrators

    Tools to assess an organization and implement strategies to prevent staff sexual misconduct in a jail setting are provided. 
  • Policy and Procedures Development

    Guidelines for the creation of mission statements, policies, and procedures are presented.
  • A Quick Guide for LGBTI Policy Development for Youth Confinement Facilities

    “This Quick Guide will help agencies and facilities develop a comprehensive response to working with lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and inters
  • Transgender and Other Gender Non-Conforming Employee Policy

    This is an excellent resource to use as a template for creating a policy within your agency regarding support for transgender and other gender non-
  • LGBT Youth in Juvenile Justice: Creating Agency Policies for an Equitable System Webinar

    Many juvenile justice systems don't know how many young people in their system identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender (LGBT) and often
  • Principles of Effective Juvenile Justice Policy (2017)

    The issues addressed by the work group reflect the important role of state legislatures in enacting policies that avoid unnecessary involvement of