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Best Practices: Excellence in Corrections

NCJ Number
176279
Editor(s)
E E Rhine
Date Published
1998
Length
606 pages
Annotation
This document describes correctional programs that represent best practices in 19 areas, including adult corrections, adult local detention facilities, residential and nonresidential community corrections, correctional education, correctional industries, disturbance preparedness, employee training, facility design, and health care.
Abstract
Other subject areas include juvenile corrections, mental health services, public information, research, restorative justice, shock incarceration, drug treatment, technology, and victim services. An introduction to each section explains the process and criteria by which the programs were selected. Criteria included their proven or expected effectiveness, efficient use of funding, extent of innovation, and ability to transfer the program to other correctional systems. Each program is described with respect to hits history, development and design, implementation, costs, impacts, and contact information. Figures, tables, and subject and contact indexes