Articles, News, Updates and Reports

Articles & News

• Plans dropped for Madison re-entry prison
• Newark, NJ plan seeks to cut recidivism
• Program helps ex-offenders step into job market
• NV's Marsy's Law: Victims’ Bill of Rights
• Crime Victims Recognized During National Crime Victims’ Rights Week
• WVa lawmakers pass mental health funding boost
• NSW doctors to decide fate of mentally ill prisoners
• Australia prison officers call for super jail plan to be scrapped
• Tenn. correction officials adhere to national research, help offenders improve their lives
• In Saudi Arabia, 16% jump in complaints about rights violations
• McGee to lead MD state Division of Parole and Probation
• SC's Gov. Perdue urges parole revamp
• NZ Plan for parole 'super teams'
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• Israeli Lawyers demand better treatment for detainees
• Nevada officials say probation deficiencies corrected
• Rural Nevada communities respond to lack of mental health care
• Mental care can save on jail costs
• In Houston, TX, tragedy spurs call for police mental health training change
• For Kansas corrections programs, budget cuts do not pay
• Parole Proposed In Malta
• Jamaica's human rights organization says holding of children a major breach
• Australian juvenile prison at bursting point
• UK prison inmates 'forced to move'
• US adviser suggested delay in Guantanamo release
• Santa Clara County program aims to get veterans from jail to mainstream
• 60% Ugandan prisoners in jail for three years without trial
• Prisoner overflow going to Quamby
• Pardon was not in good faith - Says Ghana's Tsikata
• County has wait-and-see attitude on capital projects
• Canada's BC plans to open remand centre Prison called 'insane'
• Inmate education provides new start
• PA's Bucks County seeks to keep prisoners from coming back
• Yolo County Re-entry facility not likely in '09
• New US Clayton sheriff fires 14, brings back some fired by Hill
• Australia denies another request to resettle Guantanamo detainees
• No vacancy - Labrador Correctional Centre filled to capacity
• Library Service for People in Jails or Prisons
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Press Release --

• Joyfields Institute Conducts First Free Webinar on Second Chance Act Grants with nearly 500 participants!
• Second Chance Grant Solicitation Scheduled for Release, March 2009
• Second Chance Grant - section by section
• Madoff Scandal Forces philanthropic criminal justice funder, JEHT Foundation’s Closure
• Joyfields Institute launches online eLearning webinars as part of '09 training schedule

Publication - Corrections Leader

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• Vol. 2, No. 1

Trends, Reports, Opinions

• Drug courts saving lives, taxpayers' money

• The problem with Scottish prisons - OPINION

• Why we need to set 3000 prisoners free in Scotland - OPINION

• Making the case for creating a more comprehensive public safety agency - OPINION

• Children of Incarcerated Parents: Helping The Silent Victims

• Governor Jindal announces new re-entry program for state inmates in parish prisons to reduce recidivism rate

• In US Behavioral Health collaborates with Veterans Services

• Statement Of Mental Health America On Preventing Mental, Emotional, And Behavioral Disorders Among Young People

• New Brunswick lawyers criticize remand law proposal

• State's parole system broken, decades of reports reveal

• WA bill would smooth voting restoration for felons

• Maryland Monthly Parolee Fee Should End: Says Study

• Corrections more costly in our state

• State of VT mulls restoring town probation office

• CT Corrections: More Safety For Less Money
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• GA Dougherty County DA sees an increase in crime ahead

• Seeking to Intervene With Young Adults Before Crime Becomes a Way of Life

• The traps of California plans for prisoner early release is examined

• No time for retreat in the face of budget restraints

• California gang meeting stirs up ideas and questions

• Surging numbers of US offenders on parole and probation

• Mental health court is right move for county

• Virginia’s mental health agency gets shorter name

• U.S. House of Representatives Approves Over $133 Million for Prisoner Reentry

• Prison staff reforms could lead to riots, unions warn

• Advocates in Maryland nervous as Johnson considers cuts to reintegration programs

• President Obama's Stimulus Package-What It Means to the Criminal Justice System-NCJA

• Finding jobs after jail a difficult task

• Australia's Maori want to run private prisons

• Canadian government study defends B.C. judges

• An experimental program offers rich rewards to drug-addicted ex-cons in St. Louis

• Feature: US Prisons Under Pressure -- Corrections Budgets in the Age of Austerity

• Reentry - Some Key Points

• NIH: Drug Abusing Offenders Not Getting Treatment They Need

• Darryl Burton set free after 24 years behind bars as an innocent man

• Second Chance Grant - - section by section

• Second Chance Grant Solicitation Scheduled for Release, March 2009

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