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Ohio Communicator Spring 2000: Special Edition

NCJ Number
182995
Editor(s)
Tessa Unwin
Date Published
2000
Length
20 pages
Annotation
This document contains 14 articles by employees of the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction.
Abstract
The document contains articles by Department staff who have seen many changes during their careers as well as relatively new employees who take a look at the present and the future with fresh perspectives. Individual articles describe: (1) a warden’s perspective on programs; (2) a brief historical overview by the Director of the Department of Rehabilitation and Correction; (3) the changing face of corrections, as seen by the Deputy Director, Office of Policy; (4) the lives of incarcerated women, described by a Corrections Specialist at the Ohio Reformatory for Women; (5) community service; (6) a new warden’s perspective on working with female offenders; (7) community corrections; (8) flexible standards regarding prison conditions and treatment of inmates; (9) the use of human resources and technology in corrections; (10) prisons in the 21st century; (11) privatization in corrections; (12) the early history of the Ohio penitentiary; (13) preparing professionals for the next century; and (14) one man’s recollections of his first day as a social worker in a correctional facility almost 30 years earlier.