Jail Reform: Are You Ready?
As the public focus on police reform slowly begins to include jail reform, here are some questions for your team to consider to ensure you’re ready for whatever comes next.
Why Your Jail Needs a CIT
Training a Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) in your jail can lower the risk of recidivism in your community, lessen the cost of mental health care in your facility, and keep both your team and your wards safer.
Successful Reentry Starts with You
Successful reintegration into the community starts with you. Here’s what your team can do to make a difference for individuals long after they’ve left your jail.
Keeping COVID out of Jail: Lessons from a COVID-Free Facility
Read Greg’s interview with Josh Carey, Jail Commander in Hamilton County, Indiana, to find out how his team has kept the jail COVID-free.
4 Ways to Keep Your Jail Safe from Fentanyl Exposure
When (not if) fentanyl makes its way into your jail, what can you do to keep staff and inmates safe? Here are a few ways to start.
Four Ways to Fight Human Trafficking in YOUR Community
As justice practitioners who are in constant contact with vulnerable populations, what can we do to stop human trafficking?
Let’s Flip the Script on Public Perception of CO
We are highly trained professionals. We face tough choices every day. We do the right thing. And it makes a difference.
A Leading Voice in Pretrial Reform? Yours.
The courts may be at the center of the pretrial reform debate, but jails are at the center of the ongoing repercussions of those decisions.
Why didn’t you know?
When you screen inmates at intake, you know right away what treatments, housing, and programming will be most effective for each individual, and you can make decisions that appropriately allocate resources and keep everyone safe.
Mental Health: A challenge beyond our reach?
Placement in restrictive housing is often an attempt to protect inmates, but it can have the opposite effect, particularly for those who suffer from mental illness.