The Department of Public Works (DPW) was provided $12.3 million to construct seven new educational buildings at the correctional institution in Lorton, Virginia. The funds provided under the Criminal Justice Initiative (CJI) were intended to expand the academic and vocational training programs for residents of the District of Columbia's…

This document gives the findings and recommendations of a study designed to identify interventions which can reduce the criminality of chronic juvenile offenders. The findings presented should be of interest to researchers and practitioners who are attempting to devise methods of reducing the crimes of chronic offenders that are more effective and…

Although the Rotter Incomplete Sentence Blank (ISB):High School Form has been used to distinguish between normal and abnormal adolescents, it has been hypothesized that in facility placed juvenile delinquents' highly conflictual responses (i.e., those that index maladjustment) reflect removal from home and agency placement rather than long-term…

This report presents preliminary findings from the 1974 Juvenile Detention and Correctional Facility Census conducted by the Bureau of the Census. The census was the third in a series begun in 1971. Unlike previous censuses, the 1974 project covers private as well as public facilities. After brief sections on general findings, methodology, and…

The purpose of this guide is to help the Bureau of Prisons develop programs based on a balanced philosophy that recognizes that punishment, deterrence, incapacitation and access to opportunities for self-improvement are all valid purposes of incarceration. The Bureau's basic objectives are, first, to provide a safe and humane environment for…

DETENTION IS DEFINED AS THE TEMPORARY CARE OF CHILDREN WHO REQUIRE SECURE CUSTODY FOR THEIR OWN OR THE COMMUNITY'S PROTECTION, PENDING COURT DISPOSITION. THE DOCUMENT STATES THAT JAIL DETENTION OF CHILDREN, THE PREVALENT RECOURSE, IS DEMORALIZING, UNFIT, AND OFTEN UNNECESSARY. NEEDS ARE STATED TO INCLUDE (1) ADEQUATE PROBATION SERVICES, (2)…

THE SOCIAL INTERACTION IN AN INSTITUTION WAS STUDIED TO DETERMINE ITS INFLUENCE ON VALUE-BELIEF PREFERENCES OF MEMBERS OF A SPECIFIC GROUP. A SAMPLE OF ABOUT 58 MENTALLY HANDICAPPED, DELINQUENT BOYS RANGING IN AGE FROM 12 TO 16 YEARS WAS SELECTED. THE SELECTION WAS BASED ON TIME-IN-RESIDENCE, INTELLIGENCE SCORES, ETIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION, AND…

Very little of the professional literature on suicide deals with suicide in jails, and virtually no references to juvenile suicide in adult jails exist. To determine if the rate of juvenile suicide in adult jails might be higher than that in secure juvenile detention centers, suicidal conduct was used as the indicator of the harmful effects of…

This handbooks for participants contains materials for a three-day workshop on stress management in corrections. The workshop is intended for correctional administrators and managers, to enable them to produce a stress-management plan for identifying and remedying such problems as employee disability, alcoholism, drug abuse, and distressed…

This report to Congress cites the fact that about one-fourth of institutionalized juvenile delinquents tested in two states had primary learning problems or learning disabilities. Most juvenile delinquents have behavior problems in school, and many may be academic underachievers--pupils of normal intelligence who are two or more years below the…

Subjects were 138 inmates from the pre-release unit of a Southwestern prison system, randomly divided into three groups of 46 each. Each group viewed a video-taped model delivering a speech. The independent variable had three levels: (1) lecturer attired in a shirt and tie; (2) lecturer attired in a correctional officer's uniform; and (3) model…

TWENTY EIGHT STATE INSTITUTIONS AND THIRTEEN COUNTY INSTITUTIONS FOR THE MENTALLY ILL AND TUBERCULAR WHICH RECEIVE 50 PERCENT OF THEIR SUPPORT FROM THE STATE ARE INCLUDED IN THIS SURVEY OF INSTITUTIONAL LIBRARIES. DATA COLLECTED FROM FIELD VISITS AND QUESTIONNAIRES ON LIBRARY COLLECTIONS, PERSONNEL, PHYSICAL FACILITIES, SERVICES AND BUDGET FOR…

This report explores the ways in which the First Amendment affects the rights of the press and the public to examine conditions inside the nation's prisons and jails. Discussion also analyzes the First Amendment's interpretation with regard to the right to gather news, reviews Supreme Court decisions related to the right of access to prisoners or…

The survey summarized in this report was administered to 54 sample staff members--school teachers, vocational education and shop instructors, corrections officers, counselors, administrators and secretaries, and inmates who hold responsible jobs--at the Connecticut Correctional Institution-Cheshire, to determine the extent to which the staff has…

Two general explanatory models have been proposed to account for the emergence and quality of the inmate subculture. The deprivation model focuses upon the notion that correctional institutions are based upon coercion and that the institutional experience degrades and deprives the inmate. The inmates' adaptive response to these…