This issue of "The Link" includes the following articles: (1) "Oregon Crafts Guidelines for Effective Girls Programming - By Pam Patton and Marcia Morgan" (Pam Patton and Marcia Morgan); (2) "Linking Child Placement and Juvenile Delinquency: Research Examines the Role of Placement in Increased Delinquency Rates"; and (3) "Unlocking the Future:…

This issue of "EDJJ Notes" contains the following articles: (1) "In the News: The Policy of Prosecuting Juvenile Offenders as Adults: A Summary of Key Issues" (Jeffrey M. Poirier); (2) "Youth Transition from a Secure Care Facility" (Megan McGlynn); and (3) "Research to Practice: Self-Management" (Part II of…

Previous research has found that 80 percent of all adults incarcerated for felonies either had regularly used illegal drugs or abused alcohol, been convicted of a drug or alcohol violation, were under the influence of drugs and/or alcohol at the time of their crime, committed a crime to support their habit, or exhibited some combination of these…

This bulletin is part of the best practice series on programs that provide assistance in building or expanding juvenile correction and detention facilities and in training correctional staff. These bulletins are designed to present up-to-date knowledge to juvenile justice policymakers, researchers, and practitioners about programs and approaches…

This study focused on employment-related programs in prison, exploring what the research literature tells about the effectiveness of prison-based education, vocational training, and prison industry on postrelease outcomes. Also studied was the state of practice of such programs and strategic opportunities for improving existing employment-related…

This study sought to examine whether the growth in the District of Columbia's criminal justice expenditures was impacting on the financing of public higher education. Text, graphs, and figures focus on: (1) the impact of criminal justice policies on the University of the District of Columbia (UDC)--the only publicly funded institute of higher…

This study compares the changes in funding of universities and prisons in Maryland during the 1990s. Data from the Department of Public Safety, Division of Corrections, and the Maryland Higher Education Commission were analyzed for trends in correctional and college populations. The study notes that funding for Maryland's prisons increased by 50…

This program corrects the deficiencies of existing extension, television, and correspondence-oriented prison education by operating with student personnel workers and faculty inside the prison on a full-time basis. The following program components prove essential: the goal is rehabilitation; the methods are post-secondary education and counseling…

The Illinois Corrections Project for Law-Focused Education, which brings law-focused curriculum into corrections institutions, was initiated in 1973 with a summer institute and includes programs in nine particpating institutions. (JH)

Describes a two-year test project sponsored by the New York State Department of Correctional Services called Experimental Community Treatment Facilities for Earlier Paroles. (Author/JM)

Advocates restructuring of counseling practices to make counselors understand the needs and problems of students, inmates, ex-offenders, veterans, etc., including the addition of new courses in departments dealing with counseling on music therapy, psycho-linguistics, and the law enforcement process. (JM)

Surveys the literature on treatment-custody conflict in institutions that derives from administrative needs to maintain organizational stability and control. Suggests correctional institutions should be restructured to recognize guards as influential role models as well as authority figures, and to reduce role conflict among correctional officers.…

The Attorney General's Task Force on Violent Crime recommends more incarceration to combat rising crime. These recommendations will negatively affect Blacks, who suffer from a criminal justice system designed to treat them unfairly. Approaches to the crime problem should begin by addressing the social causes of rising crime. (Author/MJL)

In the fall of 1978, a study was conducted to ascertain the status of recreation personnel and programs in state maximum security facilities. The frequent criticism that correctional recreation is too sports oriented was supported by the findings of the survey. (JN)