The article discusses how the Indiana Department of Corrections (IDOC), in partnership with the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) Indiana, has established a comprehensive Certified Treatment Specialist Program designed to provide corrections personnel with the fundamental skills to assist inmates ...
National Institute of Corrections, Thursday, September 19, 2013 NW Ind. county seeks ways ease jail overcrowding by releasing some inmates while cases proceed VALPARAISO, Ind. (AP) - The Porter County Commissioners are supporting spending $148,000 to help ease jail overcrowding by hiring one ful...
The article focuses on the Shifting Gears: Recycled Bikes Program of the Indiana Department of Correction. The program will allow inmates from the Pendleton Correctional Facility to refurbish donated bikes. Bikes donated through Vol...
This analysis suggests specific attention of correctional policy makers to the size of private markets, accountability networks, market expansion of private providers, and equity issues that arise when inmates are used in the production of private goods and/or services.FERRANDINO...
"The events of October 23rd were the result of the unforeseeable criminal actions of a rogue corrections officer. The individual in question chose to abandon his training, ethics and morals and made the unilateral decision to mortgage his career and future by allowing inmates access to the jail ...