Corrections Today articles from June 2000

Corrections Today archives from June 2000

Saluting the Heartbeat of Corrections.
June 1, 2000... This month's issue of Corrections Today salutes the heartbeat of the corrections profession -- the men and women who work tirelessly to maintain the safety and security of our correctional systems. Their professionalism and maintenance of...

Don't Give Up on Change.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2000... Editor's Note: The Michigan Department of Corrections (DOC) is not in any way responsible for the content or accuracy of this material. The views are the author's personal opinions and not necessarily those of the department. The "nothing...

Profile.(president of Riverdale Mills Corporation)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2000... James M. Knott, founder and president of Riverdale Mills Corp., always has been known as an innovator. Nearly 50 years ago, he created a process for coating wire mesh that brought new market opportunities for his wire manufacturing company. For...

Crime Victims' Amendment.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2000... Although the Clinton administration supports a constitutional amendment to protect crime victims' rights, it recently stated that the specific proposals of this amendment may infringe on defendants' rights or law enforcement efforts, according...

Drug Offenders' Sentences Shorter.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
June 1, 2000... According to researchers at Syracuse University, drug traffickers and users arrested by federal law enforcement agencies are doing less time in prison compared to the past several years, reports The Hartford Courant. Nationwide federal drug...

Restoring Voting Rights For Ex-Offenders.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2000... A proposal to restore former offenders' right to vote in federal elections is before the House Judiciary Committee. An alliance of grassroot prison reform groups and African-American legislators are leading the effort, which has caused pending...

Death Penalty Support Slips in Minnesota.(Brief Article)(Polling Data)(Statistical Data Included)
June 1, 2000... The death penalty is losing support among Minnesotans, but still is favored by a majority of people, according to a recent Star Tribune Minnesota poll. The statewide poll of 1,021 adults taken Feb. 23-27 found that 57 percent favored the death...

Hate Crimes Bill Passes in Georgia.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2000... Georgia lawmakers agreed in March to impose stiffer penalties for hate-motivated violent crimes, reported The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. But how far the state will go in defining hate crimes still must be worked out. The Georgia House voted...

Mass. Sex Offenders Could Get Out Sooner.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2000... The Boston Globe recently reported that under a plan supporters believe would benefit the public and offenders, sex offenders would receive counseling and strict supervision prior to full release. But Charles McDonald, spokesperson for the...

California Probation, Parole and Correctional Association: A Variety of Perspectives and a Valuable Resource.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2000... "Justice and Equity Put Forth With Devotion" has been the California Probation, Parole and Correctional Association's (CPPCA's) motto since its formal establishment in 1917. Honoring this motto has made CPPCA a success and has inspired its...

Offender Treatment Programs Support Lower Crime Rates.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2000... The FBI recently released 1998 crime statistics which report that crime is down for the seventh consecutive year. In a joint press conference, President Bill Clinton and U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno proudly announced the results, but...

A Revitalized Probation Service.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2000... London was the site of a gathering of international delegates for the Probation 2000 Conference, held Jan. 26-28. Lady Stephanie North, chair of the Central Probation Council, opened the conference by reflecting on the worldwide effects of...

Federal Biennial Budget -- An Idea Whose Time Has Come?(Brief Article)
June 1, 2000... As Congress maneuvers through another difficult, politicized budget process, the call for a biennial budget appears to be gaining momentum. President Bill Clinton, Speaker of the House Dennis Haskert, Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott, House...

LEE ANN ARAKAKI-WARNER TAKING ON A CHALLENGE With Heart.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2000... Taking on a challenge is Lee Ann Arakaki-Warner's forte. Hawaii Correctional Industries' sewing operation at the Halawa Correctional Facility was lucky to have her as an employee when they faced various problems within their sewing operation....

LISA BAYNE DEDICATION At its Best.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2000... When Parole Officer Lisa was asked to sit on the National Methadone Implementation Committee in 1998, she never imagined she would end up coordinating the Community Methadone Maintenance Program in British Columbia and become the program's...

MICHAEL V. COLEMAN SHOWS No fear.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2000... One evening last August, Michael V. Coleman, deputy warden of the Mt. Olive Correctional Complex in West Virginia, received an alarming phone call at his home. The prison shift commander informed Coleman that an inmate wanted to discuss a...

KEVIN COONS AND CHRISTOPHER CORONA TEAMWORK Is Everything.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2000... Being in the right place at the right time with the right person is something correctional officers Christopher Corona and Kevin Coons from the Arizona State Prison Complex (ASPC)-Tucson Transportation Department know a lot about. These two...

RICHARD DANSDILL MORE THAN A Job.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2000... Some people just don't Know when to quit. Fortunately, Richard Dansdill is one of them. Dansdill, correctional support supervisor III at Fremont Correctional Facility in Canon City, Colo., does more than supervise the kitchen at the state's...

DAVID C. KNAPPS A TRUE Hero.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2000... Capt. David C. Knapps' life and death epitomize what it means to be a true public servant. Knapps was brutally murdered in the line of duty for refusing to surrender his keys to six inmates who planned to escape from the Louisiana State...

LYNN LUCAS LOOKING OUT FOR New Jersey's Youths.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2000... Lynn Lucas has touched on several aspects of juvenile corrections. Although her work with juveniles began in noncorrectional programs, she eventually answered her true calling -- helping troubled youths. As a Kean University social work...

LEO D. MARTINEZ TRUE TO His School.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2000... The Trinity Guadalupe Parish has stood in Milwaukee for 147 years. Leo D. Martinez, director sin of juvenile services for Wisconsin Correctional Services (WCS), has associated with it for more than one-third of that time. Martinez, 53,...

COMPUTERS FOR SCHOOLS TEAM: Helping Everybody Win.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2000... In Massachusetts, restorative justice has taken a modern turn with the Department of Correction's (DOC's) Computers for Schools program. Patterned after a similar project in California, inmates at the Massachusetts Correctional Institution...

DANIEL NAGLE TAKEN AWAY But Not Forgotten.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2000... Correctional Officer Daniel Nagle fully expected to return home from his job at the Texas Department of Criminal justice's (TDCJ's) McConnell Unit near Beeville, Texas, on Dec. 17, 1999. Tragically, though, he lost his life that day -- at the...

CHERYL ORNDOFF GAINING A NEW Perspective.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2000... Lead singer of a band, housewife, mother, grandmother and store clerk are various roles Cheryl Orndoff has filled throughout her life. In 1998, at 53, Orndoff took on another role -- as a correctional officer. While working in a...

DAWN SULLIVAN POISE Under Pressure.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2000... It is probably a phone call anyone running a correctional facility has nightmares about. "All hell is breaking loose in the control room," shouts the person at the other end of the line, who abruptly hangs up. On Christmas Day 1998, at the...

JUSTIN TAYLOR KEEPS ALL THE BALLS In the Air.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2000... In 1982, Justin Taylor was deputy sheriff of a 54-bed county jail in New York. After four years with the sheriff's department, Taylor decided to try his hand at state corrections. This is when his career with the New York State Department of...

YEAR 2K TEAM: Starting the Millennium Early.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2000... During the months leading up to the new millennium, computer technicians across the world were scrambling so their computers would not crash on Jan. 1, 2000. In the Juvenile Rehabilitation Administration (JRA) of Washington state's Department...

JANE YOUNG ADVOCATE FOR Inmate Education.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2000... Having been a teacher of adolescents with emotional and learning disabilities, Dr. Jane Young had considerable experience with disadvantaged and at-risk youths and families before she accepted the position of director of Educational Services...

DAVID ZARAGOZA MAKES A Mother Proud.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2000... David Zaragoza followed somewhat in his mother's footsteps when it came to choosing a career. "My mother has been involved in law enforcement most of her career," Zaragoza explains. She was a dispatcher for the sheriff's department and now is a...

Sloan Valve Co.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2000... Sloan Valve Co. recently established an installation engineering call center designed to offer direct information about its growing line of plumbing products to contractors and wholesalers. The new call center telephone number directly connects...

Avitar Inc.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2000... Early this year, Avitar Inc., which develops, manufactures and markets innovative medical devices, appointed Charles Plate, Ph.D., as director of Research and Development. In this capacity, he is responsible for developing new applications of...

Morrison Knudsen Corp.
June 1, 2000... Earlier this year, Morrison Knudsen Corp. (MK) received notice to proceed and has begun construction on a new Ada County Courthouse in Boise, Idaho. MK is working under a $56 million design/build contract awarded by the Capital City Development...

Vision Software Inc.
June 1, 2000... Lapeer County, Mich., recently selected Vision Software Inc. (VSI) as its public safety software provider. The software will be shared among 24 multi-jurisdictional agencies, which came together to form the Lapeer County Consortium. VSI was...

Cognitive Self-Change Programs: Opportunity Through Teamwork.
June 1, 2000... Editor's Note: The Michigan Department of Corrections (DOC) is not in any way responsible for the content or accuracy of this article. The views expressed here are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the Michigan DOC. Staff...

FLORIDA'S AWARD-WINNING NONSECURE DRUG TREATMENT PROGRAM.
June 1, 2000... Sharon was 23 when she was first sentenced for a drug-related crime -- one year of probation for possession of crack cocaine in 1985. She moved on to larceny and grand theft to help support her habit and landed in state prison in 1991 as a...

THE COLORADO STATE PENITENTIARY PROGRESSIVE REINTEGRATION OPPORTUNITY UNIT.
June 1, 2000... Colorado State Penitentiary (CSP) is the maximum administrative segregation facility for the state of Colorado. CSP opened in August 1993 to house 504 of the state's most violent, predatory and unpredictable inmates. Its mission is to: *...

RESILIENCY: Juvenile Offenders Recognize Their Strengths to Change Their Lives.
June 1, 2000... A child commits a horrific crime. Some blame it on a terribly dysfunctional home environment. Others point to the many examples of individuals who have transcended similar childhood experiences to become productive, even stellar members of...

Better Than the Dream.(The Southwest Indiana Regional Youth Village)
June 1, 2000... The Southwest Indiana Regional Youth Village The Southwest Indiana Regional Youth Village (SIRYV) treatment facility and detention center is a private, nonprofit, residential facility for at-risk youths. This award-winning facility was a...

NIC Develops New Comprehensive Training Program For Offender Workforce Development Specialists.
June 1, 2000... Position titles, responsibilities and staff allocations within correctional jurisdictions may vary, but every state in the nation has staff providing employment services to offenders. For the past five years, the National Institute of...

Doing Time.(Review)
June 1, 2000... 25 Years of Prison Writing, ed. Bell Gale Chevigny, Arcade Publishing, 1999, 349 pp. Doing Time: 25 Years of Prison Writing is an anthology culled from the winners of the annual PEN (poets, playwrights, editors, essayists and novelists)...

Using Leverage to Aid Corrections.
June 1, 2000... For most of the National Institute of Justice's (NIJ's) technology program's history, initiatives relating to corrections-specific technologies have dealt almost exclusively with the development of standards for correctional equipment: jail...

Lessons Can Be Learned.
June 1, 2000... With the sentencing of Nathaniel Abraham -- the Michigan boy who became, at age 11, one of the youngest murder defendants in U.S. history -- Americans once again had an opportunity to witness a public debate on the merits and flaws of a justice...