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ICPA E - BULLETIN: JUNE 2016
Case Studies, Initiatives, Insights and Articles
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Advancing Corrections Journal - Now Live & Available Online
Advancing Corrections is a peer-reviewed publication that provides an interdisciplinary and international forum for the dissemination of new research, policies and practices related to advancing professional corrections worldwide. The aim is to provide an opportunity for both researchers and practitioners from a wide range of disciplines (criminal justice, psychology, sociology, political science, economics, public health, and social work) to publish papers that examine issues from a variety of perspectives in a unique, interdisciplinary forum. Advancing Corrections is intended to fill the need for researchers to speak more clearly to practitioners and practitioners to speak in a more evidence informed way to their colleagues.
This first edition of Advancing Corrections Journal is available to all ICPA members. If you are not yet a member of our Association you can register today as a Basic Member for free!
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Exposure to Trauma among Women Offenders: A Review of the Literature
by Katie Tam & Dena Derkzen
Correctional Service of Canada
Given high rates of trauma among women offenders and evidence of positive gains associated with support in this area, trauma and trauma-informed treatment should be available for women with histories of physical and sexual abuse or other traumatic experiences. All of the Correctional Service of Canada's (CSC's) programs for women offenders are trauma-informed; in addition, CSC offers the Survivors of Abuse and Trauma program, which provides counselling to women offenders to deal with issues of trauma. Although program participants reported
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Turning Research into Action
ICPA Research & Development Expert Group
Few would dispute that in advancing corrections, or progressive criminal justice policy more generally, we should be guided by 'evidence'. We keep hearing the refrain that what we do should be evidence-based. But what evidence should we be using, where is it, how do we find it, and how do we try to understand it.
A major disconnect in the field is that 'what we know' is published mostly in academic journals, read mostly by other academics and researchers. But evidence is of little value unless it is understood and put into action. What we know has difficulty becoming 'what we do' if it can't be easily digested and appreciated by practitioners, managers, policy-makers and other corrections and criminal justice professionals
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Developing Correctional Leaders:
A Training Workshop for African Corrections Professionals
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Gary Hill
ICPA Staff Training &
Development Expert Group
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Frank Porporino, Ph.D.
ICPA Research &
Development Expert Group
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Under the auspices of the International Corrections and Prisons Association (ICPA), the African Correctional Services Association (ACSA) and the Namibian Correctional Service (NCS), 38 corrections professionals from 11 African nations met for a five day intensive training session on Developing Correctional Leaders. The training was held in Omaruru, Namibia at the Lucius S. Mahoto Correctional Service Training College. The College is a modern training facility with classrooms, parade grounds, gymnasium, food service, student and staff housing and administrative offices. The NCS provided housing for the participants as well as transportation from and to the airport in Windhoek. The ICPA paid for food for the participants as well as accomodation and travel costs for the trainers. Trainers volunteered their time for the training. Special thanks is due to Corrections Canada for allowing two of their Wardens to participate as trainers in this event, Bobbi Sandhu, Warden at Kent Institution in British Columbia and Curtis Jackson, Warden at Collins Bay institution in Ontario.
Organized by the ICPA, instructors from Canada, Namibia, Israel, Uganda, and the United States led sessions on general correctional leadership principles and practice, and issues facing African correctional leadership in particular. Sessions covered transformational leadership, values, integrity and standards, community corrections, needs assessments and the strategic use of an offender information system. Participants also shared programmatic and operational information from their home nations and held general discussions both among themselves and with the trainers. Relying on a multi-faceted format of lectures
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| Insight Inside: HMP High Down |
HMP High Down - Providing a solid foundation for reintegration
by Aleksandar Petrov
ICPA Communications Officer
Opened in 1992 High down is situated opposite HMP Downview in Sutton. Built on the site of a former mental hospital at Banstead, the establishment serves the Crown Court at Guildford and Croydon and surrounding magistrate courts.
HMP High Down is a category B local, male prison and it has the operational capacity of 1163 inmates. The prison has four Houseblocks each with 181 spaces in single and double occupancy. Two additional Houseblocks are now open and each of them will house 176 prisoners. All of the new accommodation is single cell and have integral sanitation. The new cells are spread over three landings and all of the landings have their own showers and pin phone system in use.
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| Technologies, Innovations and Initiatives |
An Art-Inspired Innovative Approach Changes Prisoner Behaviour - A Case Study
RTA
Co-Founding Board Member
Most criminal justice experts are skeptical when an arts-based non-profit organization claims to have developed a rehabilitation program that improves prison morale and makes prison safer...yet alone makes the population more respectful and work more cooperatively...and, seemingly impossible, helps prisoners build the life skills they need to make it on the outside. Skeptical is an understatement!
But Rehabilitation Through The Arts (RTA) has accomplished all that.
They have the results to prove it: a five-year contract awarded by the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Services (DOCCS), independent published research demonstrating fewer infractions and greater pursuit of higher education among its participants, and a documented recidivism of less than five percent three years after
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Join ICPA, National Administration of Penitentiaries, and more than 500 of your professional colleagues in the exciting city of Bucharest, Romania for a sharing and learning experience as only ICPA can deliver.
Come, explore-discuss-exchange ideas and best practices for
"Correctional Leadership: Engaging Hearts and Minds" and take back with you the best of the world's solutions, techniques, and successes in corrections and provide your agency with a wealth of global insight of new, different, and practical applications.
Mark your calendar!
23-28 October 2016
Bucharest, Romania
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