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Justice in Indian Country - Corrections

Publications

Jails in Indian Country, 2007
Bureau of Justice Statistics, November 2008

American Indian Suicides in Jail: Can Risk Screening Be Culturally Sensitive?
National Institute of Justice, June 2005 

Project Guide: Adult Correctional Facility Design Resources (Part of a Series of Guides for Planning, Designing and Constructing Adult and Juvenile Correctional and Detention Facilities on Tribal Lands)
National Institute of Corrections and Bureau of Justice Assistance, 2005

Project Guide: Best Practices -- In-Custody Programs for Juveniles and Adults (Part of a Series of Guides for Planning, Designing and Constructing Adult and Juvenile Correctional and Detention Facilities on Tribal Lands)
National Institute of Corrections and Bureau of Justice Assistance, 2005

Project Guide: Juvenile Facility Design (Part of a Series of Guides for Planning, Designing and Constructing Adult and Juvenile Correctional and Detention Facilities on Tribal Lands)
National Institute of Corrections, 2005

Project Guide: The NEPA Land Use Process for Proposed Development of Correctional Facilities in Indian Country (Part of a Series of Guides for Planning, Designing and Constructing Adult and Juvenile Correctional and Detention Facilities on Tribal Lands)
National Institute of Corrections and Bureau of Justice Assistance, 2005

Project Guide: Population Profiles, Population Projections and Bed Needs Projections (Part of a Series of Guides for Planning, Designing and Constructing Adult and Juvenile Correctional and Detention Facilities on Tribal Lands)
National Institute of Corrections and Bureau of Justice Assistance, 2005

Project Guide: Site Selection (Part of a Series of Guides for Planning, Designing and Constructing Adult and Juvenile Correctional and Detention Facilities on Tribal Lands)
National Institute of Corrections and Bureau of Justice Assistance, 2005

Project Guide: Tribal Justice System Assessment (Part of a Series of Guides for Planning, Designing and Constructing Adult and Juvenile Correctional and Detention Facilities on Tribal Lands)
National Institute of Corrections and Bureau of Justice Assistance, 2005

American Indians and Crime: A BJS Statistical Profile, 1992-2002
Bureau of Justice Statistics, December 2004

Neither Safe Nor Secure: An Assessment of Indian Detention Facilities
U.S. Department of the Interior Office of the Inspector General, September 2004

Assessing Suicide and Risk Behaviors in an Incarcerated American Indian Population: Investigating Culturally Sensitive Risk Assessment Instruments and Procedures in a Border Jail, Final Report
National Institute of Justice, June 2003

Resources for Indian Country Jails: Selected Bibliography from the NIC Information Center Collection
National Institute of Corrections, February 2002

Related Resources

Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS)
BJS collects data on tribal correctional populations using the Survey of Jails in Indian Country, which is an enumeration of all 70 confinement facilities, detention centers, jails, and other facilities operated by tribal authorities or the Bureau of Indian Affairs.

National Institute of Corrections (NIC)
NIC is an agency within the U.S. Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Prisons that provides training, technical assistance, information services, and policy/program development assistance to federal, state, and local corrections agencies. Through cooperative agreements, NIC awards funds to support its program initiatives and also provides leadership to influence correctional policies, practices, and operations nationwide in areas of emerging interest and concern to correctional executives and practitioners as well as public policymakers.

National Reentry Resource Center
Administered by the Bureau of Justice Assistance, the National Reentry Resource Center provides education, training, and technical assistance to states, tribes, territories, local governments, service providers, non-profit organizations, and corrections institutions working on prisoner reentry.

Tribal Justice and Safety in Indian Country Web site
This Department of Justice resource for American Indian and Alaska Native tribal governments and communities serves as a single source of information about courts, corrections, law enforcement, crime statistics, crime prevention, legal and other public safety issues in Native American communities.

Grant Program

Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) Correctional Facilities on Tribal Lands Program
Resources through this program may be used to help tribes construct and/or renovate correctional facilities on tribal lands used for the incarceration of offenders subject to tribal jurisdiction.


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