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Source: Wanda Bertram and Wendy Sawyer, Prison Policy Initiative, April 22, 2021 Correctional staff in most states have been eligible for COVID-19 vaccination for months, prioritized ahead of many other groups because of the key role staff play in introducing the virus into prisons and jails and then bringing it back out to surrounding communities. […]
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Source: Alicia G. Dugan, Sara Namazi, Jennifer M. Cavallari, Robert D. Rinker, Julius C. Preston, Vincent L. Steele, Martin G. Cherniack, American Journal of Industrial Medicine, Volume 64 Issue 5, May 2021(subscription required) From the abstract: IntroductionThe correctional workforce experiences persistent health problems, and interventions designed with worker participation show favorable outcomes. However, participatory intervention […]
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Source: Ebony Ruhland, Bryan Holmes, Amber Petkus, Criminal Justice and Behavior, October 2020(subscription required) From the abstract: Individuals on probation are commonly assessed fines and fees. These monetary sanctions serve different purposes. Fines are primarily used for more punitive purposes, whereas fees are often used to recover the costs of services provided. Regardless of ability […]
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Source: Marshall Project, Updated August 21, 2020 The Marshall Project is collecting data on COVID-19 infections in state and federal prisons. See how the virus has affected correctional facilities where you live. Related:Tracking the Spread of Coronavirus in PrisonsSource: Katie Park, Tom Meagher and Weihua Li, Marshall Project, April 24, 2020 A new Marshall Project […]
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Source: American Correctional Association, 2020 Resources include: Coronavirus COVID-19: Corrections Update Webinar from March 23, 2020 Slides Coronavirus COVID-19: Corrections Webinar from March 10, 2020 Slides Detailed Information
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Source: Bethany Young, Katie Robertson, Urban Institute, Urban Wire blog, March 20, 2020 Prison and jail leadership must strike a balance between maintaining order and safety while providing the best possible care to and upholding the basic human rights of incarcerated people.
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Source: Eric G. Lambert, Linda D. Keena, Stacy H. Haynes, David May, Rosemary Ricciardelli, Matthew Leone, Criminal Justice and Behavior, Volume 46 Issue 10, October 2019 (subscription required) From the abstract: Job stress has many negative effects on correctional staff. We proposed and tested a path model of transactional, procedural, and distributive justice’s direct and […]
The post Testing a Path Model of Organizational Justice and Correctional Staff Job Stress Among Southern Correctional Staff appeared first on AFSCME Information Highway.
Source: Mazen El Ghaziri, Alicia G Dugan, Yuan Zhang, Rebecca Gore, Mary Ellen Castro, Annals of Work Exposures and Health, Advance Articles, March 30, 2019 From the abstract: Background and context: The correctional environment exposes registered nurses to unique occupational health hazards including, but not limited to, an increased risk for workplace violence. Gender role […]
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Source: Katherine Barrett and Richard Greene, Governing, February 25, 2019 Protesting teachers likely won’t be the only public employees who see pay raises and workplace improvements this year. …. – In their State of the State addresses and executive orders this year, many governors are making public workforce issues a priority. – They are particularly […]
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Source: George Joseph, Debbie Nathan, The Intercept, January 30, 2019 ….Dukes, who was released in October, says he was never told about what that procedure was meant to do. But contracting documents for New York’s new prison phone system, obtained by The Appeal in partnership with The Intercept, and follow-up interviews with prison authorities, indicate […]
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Source: Amanda Y. Agan – Rutgers University, Department of Economics, Michael D. Makowsky – Clemson University, John E. Walker Department of Economics, Date Written: September 25, 2018 From the abstract: For recently released prisoners, the minimum wage and the availability of state Earned Income Tax Credits (EITCs) can influence both their ability to find employment […]
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Source: Amy J. Harzke and Sandi L. Pruitt, Journal of Health and Human Services Administration, Vol. 41 No. 3, 2018 (subscription required) From the abstract: Nationally representative data collected by the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) have shown increasing and elevated prevalence of a number of non-infectious chronic medical conditions in criminal justice populations relative […]
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Source: Alexi Jones, Prison Policy Initiative, December 2018 Understanding correctional control beyond incarceration gives us a more accurate and complete picture of punishment in the United States, showing the expansive reach of our criminal justice system. This is especially true at the state level, as some of the states that are the least likely to […]
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Source: David Kidd, Governing, August 2018 ….North Dakota has always been a low-crime state, but it has paid a high price for the wars on drugs and crime over the past few decades. Since 1992, the state’s population has increased less than 20 percent, but the number of inmates has gone up 250 percent and […]
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Source: Mara Schiff, Leslie Leip, Criminal Justice and Behavior, Online First, First Published September 28, 2018 (subscription required) From the abstract: Prison wardens manage both external pressures and internal challenges that affect work-related stress. Using data from a national survey of prison wardens, we examined the impact of conflicting job expectations, workload, and job autonomy […]
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Source: Eric G. Lambert, Eugene A. Paoline, III, Nancy L. Hogan, Criminal Justice and Behavior, Volume 45 Issue 7, July 2018 (subscription required) From the abstract: Role strain has many negative outcomes. While the majority of role strain research has focused on its effects, this study explored possible antecedents of role strain among staff at […]
The post Exploring How Workplace Factors Are Associated With Role Strain Among Jail Staff: A Replication and Expansion Study appeared first on AFSCME Information Highway.
Source: Vera A. Klinoff, Vincent B. Van Hasselt, Ryan A. Black, Estefania V. Masias, Judy Couwels, Criminal Justice and Behavior, Volume 45 Issue 8, August 2018 (subscription required) From the abstract: Despite the awareness of occupational stress in first responders, virtually no investigations have focused on correctional officer resilience. The purpose of this study was […]
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Source: Michael B. Sauter, 24/7 Wall st., July 26, 2018 Nearly 1.5 million Americans were incarcerated in state prisons in 2016. That same year, U.S. states spent about $58 billion to keep these people locked up. How much each state spends on prisons goes far beyond a simple per prisoner calculation. In fact, there is […]
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Source: Lois James, Natalie Todak, American Journal of Industrial Medicine, Online First, June 12, 2018 (subscription required) From the abstract: Objectives To examine the prevalence of Post‐Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) in a sample of prison employees, investigate risk factors, and explore protective factors for PTSD. Methods We surveyed 355 Washington State Department of Corrections employees. […]
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Source: Maria Schiff and Stephen Fehr, Stateline, March 19, 2018 Nearly all people in prison eventually leave, many of them with chronic diseases or behavioral conditions that may affect public health and safety in the communities where they will live. In a positive trend, corrections departments are partnering with health care agencies in some states […]
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Source: Richard Florida, City Lab, March 13, 2018 Many large urban areas in the U.S. now have more “guard labor” than teachers. …. …. Our definition of guard labor is narrower than that of Bowles and Jayadev, limited to what they call “protective guard labor”—that is, police officers and detectives, prison guards, private security guards, […]
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Source: Samantha Michaels, Mother Jones, February 19, 2018 ….For more than a decade, the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) has run on what it describes as “mission critical” staffing—the minimum number of correctional employees necessary to safely run the 98 facilities it operates. Yet over the past year, federal prisons have dipped far below those numbers, […]
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Source: David A. Hurtado, Lisset M. Dumet, Samuel A. Greenspan, Miguel Marino and Kimberly Bernard, American Journal of Industrial Medicine, Early View, November 21, 2017 (subscription required) From the abstract: Introduction Night work and prolonged work hours increase the risk for workplace aggression, however, the risk related to precarious schedules remains unknown. Methods Cross-sectional study […]
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Source: Chelsea Thomson, Urban Institute, August 10, 2017 When it comes to criminal justice reform efforts, states are leading the charge. Programs such as the Justice Reinvestment Initiative (JRI), a structured criminal justice reform process designed to help states more safely and cost-effectively manage their corrections populations, as well as Louisiana’s recently enacted bipartisan, data-driven […]
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Source: B.L. Sloan, D.E. Efeti, Corrections Today, Vol. 79 no. 3, May/June 2017 (subscription required) A training opportunity for correctional professionals. …. Across the nation, individuals with a serious mental illness are three times more likely to be incarcerated than placed in a mental health facility. … Because of this ever-growing population, the challenges facing […]
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Source: U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO), GAO-17-379, Published: Jun 29, 2017 From the summary: What GAO Found From fiscal years 2009 through 2016, the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) obligated more than $9 billion for the provision of inmate health care and several factors affected these costs. Obligations for health care rose from $978 million in […]
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Source: Emily D. Gottfried, Sheresa C. Christopher, Journal of Correctional Health Care, Vol. 23 Issue 3, July 2017 (subscription required) From the abstract: This article examines mental illness among adult, juvenile, male, female, jail, and prison inmates. It also explores the way in which mental health diagnoses impact offending and violent behavior. A review of […]
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Source: Katherine Barrett & Richard Greene, Governing, July 7, 2017 Teaching cops, firefighters and prison workers to recognize and know how to handle people with mental illness is a big part of the efforts to reduce suffering and death at the hands of law enforcement. Less talked about is the mental health of the cops, […]
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Source: Jennifer Bronson and Marcus Berzofsky, Bureau of Justice Statistics, NCJ 250612, June 2017 From the press release: The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) released a study today that revealed 14 percent of state and federal prisoners and 26 percent of jail inmates reported experiences that met the threshold for serious psychological distress (SPD). In […]
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Source: Tanya Golash-Boza, The Conversation, May 29, 2017 Today, the United States is a world leader in incarceration, but this has not always been the case. For most of the 20th century, the U.S. incarcerated about 100 people per 100,000 residents – below the current world average. However, starting in 1972, our incarceration rate began […]
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Source: Measures for Justice (MFJ), 2017 Measuring justice, one county at a time. Assessing and comparing the performance of the entire U.S. criminal justice system. THE PROBLEM No one really knows how well our entire criminal justice system is working on the county level. THE SOLUTION Measures for Justice gathers criminal justice data at the […]
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Source: Chris Mai and Ram Subramanian, Vera Institute of Justice, May 2017 From the overview: From the early 1970s into the new millennium, the U.S. prison population experienced unprecedented growth, which had a direct influence on state budgets. In recent years, however, lawmakers in nearly every state and from across the political spectrum have enacted […]
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Source: Risë Haneberg, Dr. Tony Fabelo, Dr. Fred Osher, and Michael Thompson, Stepping Up: A National Initiative to Reduce the Number of People with Mental Illnesses in Jails, sponsored by the National Association of Counties, the American Psychiatric Association Foundation, and The Council of State Governments Justice Center, January 2017 From the summary: Reducing the […]
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Source: Lois James, Natalie Todak, Suzanne Best, American Journal of Industrial Medicine, Vol. 60 no. 5, May 2017 (subscription required) From the abstract: Objectives To examine the prevalence of sleep disorders, deprivation, and quality in a sample of prison employees, and investigate the relationship between exposure to work-related critical incidents and sleep. Methods We surveyed […]
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Source: George Pro, Miesha Marzell, Journal of Correctional Health Care, Online First, First published March 30, 3017 (subscription required) From the abstract: The population of geriatric prisoners in the United States will reach unprecedented levels in the coming decades. Geriatric prisoners are at increased risk for deteriorating health and experience the onset of disease earlier […]
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Source: César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández, Boston University Law Review, Vol. 97, No. 245, 2017 From the abstract: The United States has a long and inglorious history of coercive state practices of social control that are motivated, explicitly or implicitly, by race. From chattel slavery to modern incarceration, state actors have regularly marginalized, demonized, and exploited […]
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Source: Council of State Governments, 2012 States Perform provides users with access to interactive, customizable and up-to-date comparative performance measurement data for 50 states in six key areas: fiscal and economic, public safety and justice, energy and environment, transportation, health...
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Source: Urban Institute, 2017 [tool was funded by the Laura and John Arnold Foundation] State and local governments educate schoolchildren, train the future workforce, care for the sick and elderly, build roads, patrol neighborhoods, extinguish fires, and maintain parks. In short, they’re pretty important. But few Americans understand where their state and local tax dollars […]
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Source: Mathilde Laisne, Jon Wool, and Christian Henrichson, Vera Institute of Justice, January 2017 From the overview: In 2015, government agencies in New Orleans collected $4.5 million in the form of bail, fines and fees from people involved in the criminal justice system and, by extension, from their families. Another $4.7 million was transferred from […]
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Source: National Association of State Budget Officers, 2016 Overview: This annual report examines spending in the functional areas of state budgets: elementary and secondary education, higher education, public assistance, Medicaid, corrections, transportation, and all other. It also includes data on the State Children’s Health Insurance Program and on revenue sources in state general funds. – […]
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Source: Megan O’Matz, Sun Sentinel, December 15, 2016 In Florida, the soaring number of forced hospitalizations of mentally ill reveals a broken health care system failing those who need it most….. ….The government closed or downsized many of the facilities, and efforts shifted to enable the mentally ill to live in the community, in their […]
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Source: Wendy Sawyer, Prison Policy Initiative, December 8, 2016 From the introduction: In Massachusetts, probation is a much bigger part of the correctional control “pie” than incarceration in prison or jail. Almost three out of four people under state correctional control are on some form of probation. If you are one of these 67,000 people, […]
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Source: Ramneet Kalra, Sarah Glowa Kollisch, Ross MacDonald, Nathaniel Dickey, Zachary Rosner, Homer Venters, Journal of Correctional Healthcare, Vol. 22 no. 4, October 2016 (subscription required) From the abstract: This article reviewed a program evaluation conducted among correctional health care staff in New York City (NYC) using a 68-question electronic survey to assess satisfaction, attitudes, […]
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Source: Jeremiah C. Olson, Journal of Public Admin Research and Theory, Volume 26, Issue 4, October 2016 (subscription required) From the abstract: American prison staffs face the difficult challenge of maintaining order in an often overcrowded, potentially dangerous environment. Prison staffs are given wide discretion over treatment decisions inside prisons, including the decision to punish […]
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Source: Lee Roop, al.com, August 8, 2016 The state has closed three psychiatric hospitals since 2012 for financial reasons, cutting the number of beds for patients from 740 to 268 — a drop of 64 percent. …. Without available beds, sheriffs talk of searching for charges to find a way to house potentially dangerous individuals. […]
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Source: Azza AbuDagga, Sidney Wolfe, Michael Carome, Amanda Phatdouang, E. Fuller Torrey, Public Citizen’s Health Research Group and The Treatment Advocacy Center, Research Report, July 14, 2016 From the abstract: Public Citizen and the Treatment Advocacy Center are releasing a comprehensive national survey that captures the perspectives of county jail staff about inmates with serious […]
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Source: Karishma A. Chari, Alan E. Simon, Carol J. DeFrances, Laura Maruschak National Health Statistics Reports (NHSR), No. 96, July 28, 2016 Objectives—This report presents selected findings on the provision of health care services in U.S. state prisons. Findings on admissions testing for infectious disease, cardiovascular risk factors, and mental health conditions, as well as […]
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Source: Eileen M. Ahlin, Carol A. Hagen, Michele A. Harmon, Scott Crosse, The Prison Journal, Published online before print August 5, 2016 (subscription required) From the abstract: Kiosk reporting is one type of electronic reporting that reduces the need for a low-risk offender to meet face-to-face with a probation officer. Probationers are identified by the […]
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Source: Vera Institute of Justice, 2016 The size of jails today In 2014, the nationwide jail incarceration rate of 326 per 100,000 county residents exceeded the highest county rates registered in the 1970s, which rarely exceeded 300 per 100,000. Scroll the time slider or click the “Select data” button to navigate the data. Average incarceration […]
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Source: Vera Institute of Justice, 2016 The New Orleans criminal justice system, like many other local systems across the country, operates significantly on funding generated from the people cycling through it—from bail and associated fees before trial, to fines and fees levied after conviction. These practices come with hidden costs to defendants—the majority of whom […]
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