Corrections Today articles from July 2001

Corrections Today archives from July 2001

Technology -- Lead, Follow or Get Out of the Way.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... James A. Gondles Jr. According to Will Rogers, the great Oklahoma humorist, "Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you sit there." This especially is true when it comes to technology. Many of us remember when...

Technology -- A Challenging Opportunity.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... During the past 10 years, the United States has seen unparalleled growth in technology development that has greatly impacted both our professional and personal lives. Ten years ago, many could not have predicted that we would communicate by...

Funding Approved for Calif. Juvenile Halls.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... Over angry objections of community activists, the California Board of Corrections allocated $131 million in May to build or renovate juvenile jails throughout the state, the largest such expansion in decades. The board, however, rejected...

House Retains Maine Inmates' Right to Vote.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... Maine's House of Representatives voted last month to remain in the select group of states that allow inmates to vote. By a 78-64 tally, the House rejected a bill that sought to strip convicted felons of the voting rights they now enjoy, as do...

Juvenile Crimes Overreported.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... Juvenile crimes are vastly overreported by the media, reports the Building Blocks for Youth, Off Balance: Youth, Race, Crime in the News, a study that compiled dozens of survey results and research findings, found that although youth crime is...

New Interstate Compact.(tracking paroled inmates)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... There has been a nationwide push to create a new interstate tracking compact, reports USA Today. Officials say the idea is to improve states' methods of tracking 250,000 parolees and probationers who, according to the National Institute of...

Family and Corrections Network Empowers Offenders and Their Families.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... When Jim Mustin was a training specialist at the Virginia Department of Corrections Academy for Staff Development, he found that information for and about families of offenders was hard to come by. "There was a little bit here and there,"...

Making a Difference Through Research.(researching prisons and prisoners)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... As chief of the Office of Research and Evaluation of the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP), Gerald Gaes has conducted and provided leadership toward many advances in correctional research. Gaes, who started his career with BOP in 1980, oversees...

State Legislation 2000 -- Change in Approach.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... It has been pointed out before that the congressional debate on crime has changed. In 1994, the approach was to adopt a large comprehensive measure that addressed a variety of issues. Today, there is a focus on more specific topics. That is, in...

Profile.(Global Tel*Link phone systems)(Brief Article)(Company Profile)
July 1, 2001... In the late 1980s, Global Tel*Link entered the telecommunications market with the introduction of an advanced "smart" store and forward public pay phone system. This technology was applied to inmate telephone systems resulting in a product that...

Several New Standards Initiatives Under Way.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... For decades, accreditation has been used to evaluate correctional practices. In virtually every profession, standards of practice exist to define operational procedures and establish what is expected of those professions to achieve excellence...

2001 Congress Scholarship Recipients.(American Correctional Association's 131st Congress of Correction)(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... Congratulations to the winners of the 2001 Chapter and Affiliate Scholarship to the American Correctional Association's (ACA) 131st Congress of Correction: * Ornetta Campbell (National Association of Blacks in Criminal Justice) * Judy...

Reintegration Center for South Africa's Juvenile Offenders.(Corrective Action Holdings)(Company Profile)
July 1, 2001... It is a tight schedule for the Khulisa team, a group of 18 former offenders employed by Corrective Action Holdings, a social entrepreneurial company dedicated to crime prevention in South Africa. The team is divided into groups of three to...

Evaluating Technology Property Three Easy Steps to Success 1 2 3.
July 1, 2001... As a program manager for federal agencies devoted to developing technology, I often encounter the evaluation dilemma. Whether a project is in the concept, development, demonstration or commercial phase, the question of how to properly evaluate...

Facial Recognition.(face recognition systems and prison access control)
July 1, 2001... Assessing Its Niability in the Correction Environment As recently as 1993, facial recognition was thought of as a technology that would probably never work, and if it did, it would have limited se in the real world. The Department of...

Technology Takes on DRUG SMUGGLERS Can Drug Detection Technology Stop Drugs From Entering Prisons?(mail room detectors a priority)
July 1, 2001... Illicit drug use is a disruptive and dangerous element in the prison environment. In 1996, the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections (DOC) began a comprehensive program of drug interdiction and inmate drug testing and treatment that...

DETECTING CONCEALED WEAPONS: TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH AT THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF JUSTICE.
July 1, 2001... Authors' Note: The opinions and points of view expressed in this article are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the official position of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ). Listing of a product or vendor does not constitute a...

INMATE TRACKING WITH BIOMETRIC AND SMART CARD TECHNOLOGY.
July 1, 2001... Authors' Note: Opinions and points of view expressed in this article are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the official position of the US. Department of Justice (DOJ) or the Department of the Navy. Listing of a product or a...

Prison Network Broadcasting System.(Marion Correctional Institution, Ohio)
July 1, 2001... Imagine having in your prison a closed-circuit television network capable of producing informative programs about finance, parenting, health and security issues for inmates. Imagine being able to inform your inmate population of the intricacies...

Award-Winning Magazine.
July 1, 2001... Submission Specifics Corrections Today is a peer-reviewed publication. This means that unsolicited manuscripts are sent to ACA members with expertise in the article's subject area for evaluation. For this reason, you should provide us with...

The Easiest Day Was Yesterday: CERT Operations Airborne Ranger Style.
July 1, 2001... Anyone who has watched or participated in the deployment of the Airborne Rangers knows how and professionally those warriors operate: Deliberate movements, operational discipline, surprise, enemy suppression and speedy extraction. Those on the...

The Importance Of Gang-Related Information-Sharing.
July 1, 2001... From the time the first prison gang -- the Washington Department of Corrections' (DOG) Gypsy Jokers -- was identified in the 1950s to the comprehensive study of prison gangs by George and Camille Camp in 1985, which identified more than 114...

Incapacitation With a Purpose.(dealing with most violent offenders)
July 1, 2001... Colorado State Penitentiary (CSP) was designed and developed beginning in 1990 to provide centralized management of the most violent and disruptive offenders in the Colorado Department of Corrections (CDOC). Executive staff directed CSP staff...

TECHNOLOGY IS THE KEY SECURITY IN WISCONSIN SUPERMAX.(maximum security facility)
July 1, 2001... Every state correctional system has them: inmates who go beyond the conceivable, who are always at their worst and who are most devious and manipulative Wisconsin is no exception. As a result, Wisconsin opened its first supermax...

Inmate Transportation: Safety Is the Priority.
July 1, 2001... Sheriffs, jail administrators, police chiefs, public safety directors and wardens share a common challenge -- the safe, secure and humane transfer of hundreds of thousands of inmates per year. Although inmate transportation has been a part of...

Vermont's Cognitive Self-Change Program: A 15-Year Review.(prisoner psychology)
July 1, 2001... There are few institutional environments more inclined to repeat past mistakes than the nation's prisons. Despite billions of dollars funneled into incarcerating 2 million men and women, the corrections profession has done little to advance the...

Programming, Staffing And Managing the Violent Juvenile Offender.
July 1, 2001... March 7, 2001 -- Caucasian eighth-grader Elizabeth Catherine Bush of Williamsport, Pa., was arrested and held in custody after allegedly shooting her classmate in the shoulder. March 13, 2001 -- At the request of Florida's Department of...

AN INTERVIEW WITH LAMAR SMITH, CHAIRMAN OF THE CRIME SUBCOMMITTEE.(policies on crime)(Interview)
July 1, 2001... Editors Note. This is the third in a series of interviews that will run in Corrections Today this year. Congressman Lamar Smith (R-Texas) serves as chairman of the Crime Subcommittee of the House Judiciary Committee. The subcommittee has...

Wreath-Laying Ceremony Kicks Off National Correctional Employees Week.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... For Whom the Bell Tolls Jason Lee Acton, Missouri William G. Ballott, California David Commander, South Carolina Raymond J. Curtis, New York Lee C. Dunn, Florida Leon Earl Egley, Missouri Joe Allen Gamble, Oklahoma Alvin Sherman Glenn, South...

Five Paths to a More Defensible Correctional Workplace.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... The correctional workplace is becoming more complex every year. In addition to the challenges posed by offenders every day, correctional managers now must face the challenges of correctional workers who often feel a sense of entitlement and...

Deliberate Indifference.(Review)
July 1, 2001... Deliberate Indifference, by Jed Lewis. Laughing Fire Press. 2000. 286 pp. Jed Lewis' Deliberate Indifference is the first novel I have reviewed for Corrections Today. Besides The Shawshank Redemption and a few other escape stories, there...

Through-the-Wall Surveillance Technologies.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... Authors' Note: The views and opinions in this article are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of the US. government. References to any specific commercial products by trade name, trademark, manufacturer or otherwise do not...

National Probation Service for England and Wales Launched.
July 1, 2001... April 1 saw the launch of the new unified National Probation Service (NPS) in England and Wales. NPS is the culmination of three years of work that was initiated by the British government in 1998. The effort started with a consultation process,...

Improving Offender Work Force Development and Job Retention.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... In February, Motorola Inc.'s chip workers received the news some of them had been dreading for weeks. The company's Austin-based semiconductor business announced it would eliminate 4,000 jobs -- nearly 12 percent of its global work force. ...

Rosser International Inc.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... Donald J. Hein, AIA, NCARB, recently joined Rosser International Inc. as senior project manager in its Criminal Justice Division. Hein is a national leader in court facilities design and project management. He brings more than 22 years of...

Senstar-Stellar Corp.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... Senstar-Stellar Corp., a leading supplier of outdoor perimeter intrusion detection security products and systems recently announced that Correctional Service Canada will use the Intelli-Flex sensor as a part of the overall perimeter detection...

Digital Biometrics Inc.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... Digital Biometrics Inc., a leader in biometrics systems engineering and connectivity, recently merged with Visionics Corp., a privately held company best known for its leading facial recognition technology engine, Facelt(r). As a result of the...