Corrections Today articles from June 2003

Corrections Today archives from June 2003

Striving to be the best.(Editorial)
June 1, 2003... In my capacity as executive director of the American Correctional Association, I have traveled to nearly every state and met thousands of correctional, probation and parole officers in this country and abroad. I have spoken with them and their...

Alternative sentencing necessary for female inmates with children.(Commentary)
June 1, 2003... Like the old peace song of the '60s said, "When will they ever learn? When will they ever learn?" Let's look at the facts regarding female inmates; we can describe the no-win policy the U.S. corrections system is following by merely looking at...

Chief adult probation officer.(Job Bank)
June 1, 2003... Community Supervision and Corrections Department Bexar County, Texas The Criminal District Court Judges of Bexar County, Texas, are soliciting applications for chief of the Community Supervision and Corrections Department, who is...

Corrections Calendar addendum.(Calendar)
June 1, 2003... * Washington Correctional Association and the National Association of Blacks in Criminal Justice, Fall Training Conference, "Standing United: Celebrating the Beauty of Difference," Sept. 10-12, Shilo Inn, Ocean Shores, Wash. Contact Doug...

Attention: open hearing.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... During ACA's 133rd Congress, the ACA Juvenile Facility Size Task Force will be holding an open hearing to allow for testimony, literature review and research data on the issues of living unit size and facility size for juvenile correctional...

Norwich University.(Profile)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... Established in 1819, Norwich University, one of the premier criminal justice schools in the Northeast, is a quality professional school with a strong liberal arts component. Its 1,600 undergraduate students choose either a military lifestyle as...

Drug smuggling a federal prison problem.(National News Briefs)
June 1, 2003... Officials at the U.S. Bureau of Prisons failed to adequately search visitors, lacked cameras, monitors and staff to properly supervise inmate-visiting sessions, and had taken "insufficient measures" to prevent drug-smuggling by staff, according...

Women's prisons a budget priority.(National News Briefs)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... In marked contrast to 2002, proposed prison projects are finding their way into state budgets for the 2003 legislative sessions, especially women's prisons, which are being viewed as an urgent need, according to CorrectionalNews.com. ...

Federal budget priorities.(Legislative Issues)
June 1, 2003... Even by Washington standards, the lengthy battle to pass appropriations bills to fund federal government activities for fiscal year 2003 was a long and drawn-out process. The government relied on a series of continuing resolutions funding the...

Groundbreaking accomplishment for Mecklenburg County jails.(Accreditation Byline)
June 1, 2003... Accomplishing an initial American Correctional Association accreditation for two large adult local detention facilities in slightly more than a year seemed, at first, like an overwhelming and improbable task to complete when Mecklenburg County...

Private family visits are a matter of logic.(Conjugal Visits)
June 1, 2003... If preparation is the key to offender re-entry, then private family visits, an outgrowth of conjugal visits, should be considered. Besides preparing inmates for re-entry, private family visits can also maintain and strengthen family bonds. At...

The cost of conjugal visitation outweighs the benefits.(Conjugal Visits)
June 1, 2003... The Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction (ODRC) has long-since valued the preservation of stable family and community ties as a part of the rehabilitation of offenders. As research has shown, a strong community support system is a...

Iowa prison ministry program under fire.(State News)
June 1, 2003... Two lawsuits were filed earlier this year challenging the constitutionality of a prison ministry program at Iowa's Newton Correctional Facility that President Bush has promoted as a model for his effort to allow religious groups to compete for...

Calif. lawmakers battle over prison budget.(State News)
June 1, 2003... In the midst of a historic fiscal crisis, California Gov. Gray Davis is calling for deep cuts to schools, health care for the poor and scores of other programs, except for the state's prison system, The Los Angeles Times reports. Davis, a...

Minnesota looks to jails for housing.(State News)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... The Minnesota Senate passed its budget balancing plan for the state's 2003 deficit, rejecting two proposed prison expansions and instead asking county jails to take overflow inmates, Correctional News Online reports. Legislators estimated that...

The Police Officer in the Courtroom.(Bookshelf)(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... The Police Officer in the Courtroom, by Don Lewis, Charles C. Thomas, 2001, 214 pp. The Police Officer in the Courtroom is intended as an aid to police officers preparing for court testimony. It is very thorough and covers all relevant...

A Human Rights Approach to Prison Management: Handbook for Prison Staff.(Bookshelf)(Book Review)
June 1, 2003... A Human Rights Approach to Prison Management: Handbook for Prison Staff, by Andrew Coyle, International Centre for Prison Studies, 2002, 160 pp. The preface to A Human Rights Approach to Prison Management: Handbook for Prison Staff is...

Opening Session Keynote Speaker.(133rd Congress of Correction)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... Monday, August 11, 2003 8:15 a.m.-10:00 a.m. Bob Woodward, managing editor of the Washington Post and famous investigative reporter, will be the Keynote Speaker at the American Correctional Association's 133rd Congress of Correction...

Program of events.(133rd Congress of Correction)(Calendar)
June 1, 2003... "The Changing Face of Corrections" The American Correctional Association's 133rd Congress of Correction in Nashville, Tennessee, will offer a wide range of informative sessions and interactive workshops. The theme of this year's...

Monday Night Exhibit Hall Reception.(133rd Congress of Correction)
June 1, 2003... "CHILLI PEPPER--A HOT NIGHT!" Monday, August 11, 2003 * 5:30 p.m.-6:30 p.m. Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center Get ready for a hot time in Nashville as ACA is cooking up something that will add spice to your career during...

Tuesday Morning Exhibit Hall Break.(133rd Congress of Correction)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... GRAND OL' COUNTRY Tuesday, August 12, 2003 * 9:30 a.m.-10:30 a.m. Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center Are you ready for a foot-stomping good time filled with down home entertainment in Nashville? Then you don't want to miss...

Exhibit Hall Grand Prize Giveaway Game.(133rd Congress of Correction)
June 1, 2003... Wednesday, August 13, 2003 at 12:45 p.m. How would you like to hear some good ol' country music and other hit tunes on the radio of a brand new automobile that you can win at the Grand Prize Giveaway Game Drawing? ACA's Grand Prize...

E.R. Cass Award Reception and Banquet Sponsors.(133rd Congress of Correction)
June 1, 2003... THE RECEPTION PRECEDING THE BANQUET COMES TO YOU COURTESY OF R.R. BRINK LOCKING SYSTEMS, INC. AND DMJM DESIGN. THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT OF THIS ELEGANT EVENING. R.R. BRINK LOCKING SYSTEMS, INC. 500 Earl Road Shorewood, IL 60431...

E.R. Cass Award Recipients and Banquet Entertainment.(133rd Congress of Correction)
June 1, 2003... Wednesday, August 13, 2003 * 7:30 p.m.-11:30 p.m. ACA PAYS TRIBUTE TO THE RECIPIENTS OF THE 2003 E.R. CASS CORRECTIONAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD: Sister Margaret A. Graziano, S.N.J.M., President, International Correctional Arts Network...

Cooper Industries Ltd.(Private Sector News)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... Cooper Industries Ltd. recently announced that it has appointed David J. Feldman as president of its Cooper Lighting division. Feldman joins Cooper Lighting from Holcim (U.S.) Inc., a $1.1 billion construction materials company in Ann Arbor,...

BI Inc.(Private Sector News)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... BI Inc. recently unveiled a new electronic monitoring option that will allow judges and community correctional officers to sentence offenders to home detention when no telephone service is available. The system, called BI Cellular[TM], is a...

DMJMH+N.(Private Sector News)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... DMJMH+N, one of the largest architecture and engineering firms in the metropolitan Washington, D.C., area, recently announced the promotion of Michael F. Murphy to associate principal. In his new role, Murphy is responsible for the project...

Corrections Corporation of America.(Private Sector News)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... Corrections Corporation of America recently announced the hiring of Dean Adelman as its new vice president of human resources. Adelman's responsibilities will encompass the continued refining and expanding of a human resource department that...

Family Auxiliary Program and Tour.(133rd Congress of Correction)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... ACA's 133rd Congress of Correction is an event the entire family can enjoy. We encourage family members of registered Congress attendees to experience the music, fun and down-home excitement of Nashville, Tennessee, also known as "Music City,...

Hotel reservation information.(133rd Congress of Correction)
June 1, 2003... RESERVE BY JULY 7, 2003 Attendees of the American Correctional Association's 133rd Congress of Correction in Nashville, Tennessee can make their hotel reservations online, by telephone, fax or mail by July 7, 2003. ACA wants your...

Hotel features & amenities.(133rd Congress of Correction)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... GAYLORD OPRYLAND RESORT & CONVENTION CENTER (HEADQUARTERS) [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] * Located Eight Miles from Nashville International Airport * $7.65 Per Day Self Parking with In and Out Privileges * $15.30 Per Day Valet Parking...

Hassle-free travel arrangements.(133rd Congress of Correction)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2003... AIRLINE For your absolute convenience and comfort, ACA has arranged top-of-the-line air and ground transportation at affordable rates and will provide attendees of the 133rd Congress of Correction the best service available. So don't waste...

Fred Bernhardt: unselfishly risked his life for a stranger.(Best in the Business)
June 1, 2003... July 9, 2002, started out as a typical workday for senior correctional officer Fred Bernhardt of the Albert C. Wagner Youth Correctional Facility in Bordentown, N.J. Bernhardt took his inmate highway detail out to work for a few hours and then...

Ray Brunning: resident "grandfather" guides both staff and inmates.(Best in the Business)
June 1, 2003... It is not just his 66 years that have earned Ray Brunning the nickname of grandpa at the Edmonton Institution for Women in Canada. It is the many qualities he possesses and the things he does to comfort and support others that remind staff and...

Mary V. Leftridge Byrd: exceeding all odds.(Best in the Business)
June 1, 2003... A few months before Mary V. Leftridge Byrd entered corrections 21 years ago, she met a chief probation officer at the facility where she would later be hired, who told her without hesitation that she could not become an officer in that county...

Terri Eggers: providing juveniles the materials to make a change.(Best in the Business)
June 1, 2003... In just the two years since she was recruited by the Florida Department of Juvenile Justice and took on the role of education specialist for North Detention Services, Terri Eggers has made a significant impact throughout the region, namely...

Tyson Koch: living up to expectations and more.(Best in the Business)
June 1, 2003... Tyson Koch is not the typical correctional officer. Three months into his assignment as tool room officer at Arizona State Prison Complex (ASPC)-Winslow, he volunteered to take on the duties of the equipment repair technician when the position...

Jim and Leslye Leslie: spiritual mentors guide juvenile offenders toward better lives.(Best in the Business)
June 1, 2003... The L.E. Rader Center is a juvenile treatment facility for youthful offenders located southwest of Tulsa in Sand Springs, Okla., which houses 189 juveniles in medium and maximum security. "It's always been seen as a last chance facility in the...

Linda Modry: a true leader in juvenile justice.(Best in the Business)
June 1, 2003... Linda Modry began her corrections career as a volunteer at the Daybreak Runaway and Crisis Intervention Center while attending Youngstown State University in Ohio. Eventually, it turned into a part-time paid job and she also worked part time at...

Madeline C. Perkins: enhancing the performance of others.(Best in the Business)
June 1, 2003... Madeline C. Perkins has been with the Arizona Department of Corrections for 16 years. Throughout her career, she has held many positions, including correctional officer, correctional program supervisor and deputy warden. Her experience is...

Samuel Rodriguez: quick actions save several lives.(Best in the Business)
June 1, 2003... Tuesday, April 2, 2002, was supposed to be a "paper day" for parole agent Samuel Rodriguez: a prison board hearing, a report to write and an arrest report to pick up. But those plans were suddenly interrupted when he received a call about the...

Daniel Senkowski: setting the right tone in New York.(Best in the Business)
June 1, 2003... Since the beginning of his correctional career as a narcotic rehabilitation counselor, Superintendent Daniel Senkowski believed that the major goals of institutionalization are the safety and security of staff and offenders, followed by a...

Richard L. Stalder: defining a vision for Louisiana.(Best in the Business)
June 1, 2003... For more than 30 years, Richard L. Stalder, secretary of the Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections, has strived for and achieved excellence in corrections. Stalder began his career as a correctional officer in 1971 as a way to...

James Feeney, Matthew Smith, Mike Greenham and Germain Gaignard: children's fund benefits both children and officers.(Best in the Business)
June 1, 2003... Children in the Kingston, Ontario, area are much happier these days thanks to four correctional officers who have raised thousands of dollars for local schools, parents of special needs children, community organizations and the local hospital...

Gary Turner, Eric Brimmer and David May: corrections officials rescue crash victims from burning car.(Best in the Business)
June 1, 2003... On what seemed like an ordinary Friday after a couple hours at the shooting range, off-duty correctional officers Eric Brimmer and David May of the California Correctional Center in Susanville, Calif., and correctional sergeant Gary Turner of...

Kevin Williams: motivated by faith.(Best in the Business)(Interview)
June 1, 2003... Senior correctional officer Kevin Williams' contributions during his nearly 18-year career with the New Jersey Department of Corrections can be traced through the numerous letters of commendation he has received. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] ...

2003 best in the business list of submissions.(Best in the Business)
June 1, 2003... The following personnel were submitted for Corrections Today's annual Best in the Business issue. Many thanks to the correctional agencies and American Correctional Association chapters and affiliates for nominating staff members this year. ...

Women Empowered for Change: a model program for modified therapeutic communities.
June 1, 2003... Throughout the history of the U.S. criminal justice system, female offenders have represented a small percentage of the inmate population. Even as the percentage of the overall U.S. population has skyrocketed during the past 15 years, the...

Passport to healthy families.
June 1, 2003... The Indiana Women's Prison (IWP) was established in 1873 as the first maximum-security female correctional facility in the country. It is located one and a half miles from the center of Indianapolis; as a result, the urban community grew up...

Developing programming for the severely behaviorally disordered female offender.
June 1, 2003... As a warden and a psychologist at a maximum-security female correctional facility housing a psychiatric unit, we know the story well. As we enter the correctional facility, staff tell us that "she" has done it again. No need for a name or a...

Capitalizing on the differences: Pennsylvania's response to challenging female offenders.
June 1, 2003... The recent nationwide trend to de-institutionalize mentally ill and mentally handicapped individuals has resulted in the incarceration of an increased number of inmates with limited coping skills. The State Correctional Institution at Muncy in...

Helping female inmates cope with grief and loss.
June 1, 2003... There are a growing number of women entering the penal system yet little attention has been paid to the research and programmatic needs of this population. (1) According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the female inmate population has...

Good training made great by building rapport.
June 1, 2003... A large manufacturing plant has a trainer who is an expert at a variety of new scheduling, inventory and billing programs. This organization has decided to make a significant change in its current procedures and as a result, the older system is...

Corrections calendar.(Calendar)
June 1, 2003... * National Sheriffs' Association, 2003 Annual Conference and Exhibition, June 21-25, Gaylord Opryland Hotel, Nashville, Tenn. For more information, call 1-800-424-7827, ext. 342; or visit www.sheriff.org. * United States Deputy Warden...

Emotional intelligence and how it contributes to officer safety.
June 1, 2003... Law enforcement and correctional staff are constantly faced with situations in which they are required to use their best professional judgement on behalf of others. Many of these situations require arresting or detaining individuals who are a...

Twelve reasons for collaboration between departments of correction and child support enforcement agencies.
June 1, 2003... Authors Note: This article was prepared with the support of the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation. The underlying research on the child support status of incarcerated and paroled parents was funded by grants from the federal Office of Child...

Supervision of the critical few.(Probation and Parole Forum)
June 1, 2003... The National Probation Service for England and Wales (NPS), in collaboration with the Conference Permanente Europeenne de la Probation (CEP), conducted a workshop on the management of dangerous sex offenders Jan. 30 and 31 in the London...

Start the summer off right with ACA's discount insurance program.(Membership News)(American Correctional Association)
June 1, 2003... Do you sometimes feel like you are living out of your vehicle? Taking the kids to school and soccer practice, going to work, stopping at the grocery store and even picking the dog up at the vet are just some of the many tasks we perform with...

Welcome new members.(Membership News)(American Correctional Association)
June 1, 2003... SUPPORTING PATRON CANADA -- Sealex Technologies Ltd. GEORGIA -- Sentinel Offender Services MINNESOTA -- Institutional Management Services Inc. PENNSYLVANIA -- Firetree Ltd., Wintron Technologies TEXAS -- Conversant...

Federal government opens the door for fixed-price intergovernmental agreements.(Judicial News)
June 1, 2003... On Dec. 31, 2002, the Department of Justice Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) issued an opinion on the legality of fixed-price intergovernmental agreements (IGA) for detention services. While this opinion opens the door for allowing the DOJ to...

Meeting the needs of juvenile female offenders.(NIC Update)
June 1, 2003... Thirteen-year-old Keisha is in a juvenile correctional facility for a felony offense committed at her last placement. "She was just beginning to work on her family issues and then one day she went ballistic." Keisha's social worker said. Keisha...

Counting with fingers.(Technology Update)
June 1, 2003... In a small-town grocery store, a routine inventory is under way. Clerks move quickly among the shelves of canned goods and boxes of pasta, holding scanners in their hands, passing them over bar codes and flashing information back to the store's...