National Institute of Corrections News

The National Institute of Corrections (NIC) Community Services Division is soliciting proposals from organizations, groups, or individuals to enter into a cooperative agreement with NIC for up to 12 months beginning in September 2012. Work under this cooperative agreement is part of a larger NIC initiative, Evidence-Based Decision Making (EBDM) in Local Criminal Justice Systems. Work under this cooperative agreement will be coordinated with recipients of other cooperative agreements providing services under Phase III of this initiative.

Specifically, under this cooperative agreement, the awardee will provide technical assistance to seven Phase III sites that have already been identified. During Phase II of the EBDM planning, each of seven sites identified change strategies based on their individual system planning activities. These change strategies are critical to meeting their system’s harm reduction goals.

The technical assistance from this award will be targeted toward expanding the knowledge and use of legal and evidence-based pretrial risk assessment and release practices among criminal justice stakeholders.

 DEADLINE: Applications must be received by 4:00 p.m. EDT, Friday, July 20, 2012.

• Download the Full Solicitation

• Learn more about NIC’s Cooperative Agreements

While the Large Jail Network (LJN) meeting is only for larger jails/jail systems, many of the topics presented and discussed are pertinent and valuable to jails and jail systems of any size. The meeting is sponsored every spring and fall by the National Institute of Corrections (NIC) for administrators of jails and jail systems with more than 1,000 inmates. At each meeting a number of current and important topics are presented by corrections professionals and consultants working in the field of corrections. The most recent meeting held in March 2012 covered several emerging topics including:

• Legal Issues Update - presented by William C. Collins, Attorney, Olympia, Washington
• Technology Update - presented by Glenn Kurtz, Sedgwick County Sheriff’s Office, Wichita, Kansas
• Inmate Behavior Management - Randy Demory, Kent County Sheriff’s Department, Grand Rapids, Michigan
• Regulatory Investigations Affecting Jails - Tim Ryan, Miami-Dade County Corrections & Rehabilitation, Miami, Florida
• An "open forum" discussion about emergency preparedness, managing employee health care, transgender inmates, inmate transfers to and from state custody, and more.

Download the proceedings from NIC's online library.

While the Large Jail Network (LJN) meeting is only for larger jails/jail systems, many of the topics presented and discussed are pertinent and valuable to jails and jail systems of any size. The meeting is sponsored every spring and fall by the National Institute of Corrections (NIC) for administrators of jails and jail systems with more than 1,000 inmates. At each meeting a number of current and important topics are presented by corrections professionals and consultants working in the field of corrections. The September 2011 proceedings covered several emerging topics including:

• Recovering the Prince George’s County Jail - presented by Mary Lou McDonough and Gregory O. Harris, Prince George’s County Correctional Center, Upper Marlboro, Maryland
• Employee Management—Applicants, Discipline, and Rumor Control
  • Part 1. Preventing and Handling Staff Issues  - presented by Marilyn Chandler Ford, Volusia County Department of Corrections, Daytona Beach, Florida
  • Part 2. Steering Through Storms – presented by Curtis Flowers, Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office, Tampa, Florida
• Technology Updates
  • Part 1. Pilot Project: Remote Visitation - presented by Debra Campbell, Washoe County Sheriff’s Office, Reno, Nevada
  • Part 2. Technology: What Is Out There -  presented by Glenn Kurtz, Sedgwick County Sheriff’s Office, Wichita, Kansas
• Dealing with Family and Medical Leave Act Abuses
  • Part 1. Understanding the Family and Medical Leave Act - presented by Janet Wilson, Wage and Hour Division, U.S. Department of Labor, Denver, Colorado
  • Part 2. Reducing FMLA Abuse - presented by Marilyn Chandler Ford, Volusia County Department of Corrections, Daytona Beach, Florida
• The Prescription Drug Epidemic and Jails: Stopping the “Pill Mills” - presented by Ed Beckman, Pasco County Sheriff’s Office, Land O’Lakes, Florida
• An "open forum" discussion about roving security teams, cell phone detection technology, inmates serving time from another jail, and more.

Download the proceedings from NIC's online library.