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Between 2004 and 2006, the National Institute of Corrections provided offender workforce development specialist (OWDS) training to a...

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The anecdote describing President John F. Kennedy's 1962 visit to NASA and his conversation with a janitor has...

The American Correctional Association's certification program challenges those in corrections to develop themselves further and transcend the limitations...

The Maryland Correctional Institution in Jessup (MCI-J) is a men's state prison located in the suburbs of Baltimore....

During an economic recession, county or city officials across the country find it extremely difficult to rely on...

* National Correctional Industries Association, Enterprise 2011 National Training Conference, March 25-28, 2011, Baltimore. For more information, visit...

Reginald Powell was released on parole in 2008 after serving a 24-year sentence for second-degree murder. On Dec....

Newly Certified Certified Corrections Executives Susan Jeter, jail administrator/ commander, Brevard County Sheriff's Office, Cocoa, FIa., Mohammad Amin...

On Jan. 24, 2011, the Supreme Court ruled that state prisoners have no constitutional right to be paroled,...

The juvenile justice system has two main concerns when a youth is involved in a juvenile offense: public...

New York state's first American Correctional Association student chapter of high school students and adults is the New...

Author's Note: Findings and conclusions reported in the article are those of the authors and do not necessarily...

The federal government currently spends $69 billion a year to house two million prisoners nationwide, prompting many budget...

On Jan. 5, 2011, Attorney General Eric Holder convened the first meeting of the cabinet-level Reentry Council in...

While states across the nation face swelling adult prison populations, others have seen the opposite trend in their...

Consider the situations of two young offenders, both of whom are real individuals who were released several years...

In this economy, juvenile justice is being tested and challenged. System accountability, system costs and outcome expectations are...

The history of juvenile justice in the U.S. dates back to the early 1800s with the opening of...

Psychological safety is defined as people's perceptions of consequences for taking interpersonal risk at their place of work.1...