National Institute of Corrections News
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The National Institute of Corrections (NIC) launched the Core Correctional Interventions (CCI) Curriculum project in late 2012. The goal of the project is to produce a curricula series that will provide knowledge and skill development for corrections professionals serving in a variety of capacities. The purpose of the curricula is to equip staff to effectively use strategies demonstrated to be effective in reducing offender risk for re-offense.
The proposed curricula will use blended teaching methods and coaching/feedback. The curricula will be tailored to line corrections staff—both with and without longer-term case management responsibilities—that routinely interact with offenders. In addition, the series includes training for first line supervisors, a train-the-trainers curriculum, as well as a curriculum for in-house staff who will serve as coaches to sustain staff proficiency in the core correctional interventions skills.
NIC seeks to identify a jurisdiction that is interested in pilot testing newly developed training curricula series designed to meet the varying needs of corrections professionals in diverse settings with varying roles and offender management responsibilities.
Eligibility:
Agencies eligible to submit an application for the Core Correctional Interventions Curriculum Pilot Test must, at a minimum, serve a community corrections population. Agencies that serve both an institutional population and a community corrections population are eligible to apply. Eligible agencies can serve adult or a combination of adult and juvenile offenders.
An article in the Boston Globe outlines a recent federal court ruling in favor of Massachusetts transgender inmate Michelle Kosilek. This ruling affirms a lower court ruling requiring the state to provide a taxpayer-funded sex change noting “that the treatment is necessary and that Massachusetts officials violated the prisoner’s constitutional rights by failing to provide the surgery”. It would be the first court-ordered, state-funded sex change for a prisoner in the country.
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