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Eighteen Jails and Their Public Health Partnership Initiatives

Journal

Corrections Today

Date Published

2000

Agencies

NIJ

Publication Type

Program/Project Description

Corrections Technology Options Are Expanding

Journal

Corrections Today

Date Published

October 1999

Agencies

NIJ

Publication Type

Issue Overview

Day Reporting Center Clients Compared to Standard Probation Clients in Franklin County, PA, Final Report

Date Published

December 2010

Publication Type

Report (Study/Research), Program/Project Evaluation

Many Locks + One Key = Improved Security

Journal

Techbeat

Date Published

2011

Agencies

NIJ

Publication Type

Program/Project Description

Deportable Aliens Released From the Los Angeles County Jail: A Comparison of 1990, 1995, and 2002 Release Cohorts

Date Published

September 2005

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Assessing American Indian Suicide Risk: Can Screening be Culturally Sensitive?

Journal

Corrections Today

Date Published

June 2004

Agencies

NIJ

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Alleviating Jail Crowding - A Systems Perspective

Date Published

1985

Agencies

NIJ

Publication Type

Issue Overview

Correctional Industries

Journal

Corrections Today

Date Published

1994

Agencies

NIJ

Publication Type

Issue Overview

Learning from Doing Evaluating the Effectiveness of the Second Chance Act Grant Program

April 2022

Reauthorized in 2018, the Second Chance Act (SCA) aims to reduce recidivism and improve outcomes for people returning from state and federal prisons, local jails, and juvenile facilities through the provision of federal grants. During this panel, National Institute of Justice-funded researchers will detail two ongoing evaluations of the SCA grant program:

1. An evaluation of the effectiveness of the SCA grant program per Title V of the First Step Act.
2. A longitudinal examination of the long-term impacts of the SCA program.

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From Successful Reentry to Stronger Communities

May 2022

Series

Justice Today Podcast

What is reentry? Why is it important? And what research is being done in this field? NIJ Journal Editor Beth Pearsall hosts a conversation on reentry with Senior Science Advisor Angela Moore, Senior Social Science Analyst Marie Garcia, and Social Science Analyst Eric Martin.

Transcript

From Successful Reentry to Stronger Communities

Audio file

From Successful Reentry to Stronger Communities

A New View of Jails: Exploring Complexity in Jails-Based Research

Journal

NIJ Journal

Date Published

November 2022

Agencies

NIJ

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Interpersonal Violence and Institutional Misconduct in the Los Angeles County Jail System: A Mixed Method Investigation

Journal

International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology

Date Published

2021

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Controlling Violent Offenders Released to the Community: An Evaluation of the Boston Reentry Initiative/Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency

Journal

Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency

Date Published

2009

Agencies

NIJ

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical), Report (Study/Research), Report (Grant Sponsored), Program/Project Evaluation, Program/Project Description

Integrated Treatment for Jail Recidivists With Co-occurring Psychiatric and Substance Use Disorders

Journal

Community Mental Health Journal

Date Published

2006

Publication Type

Program/Project Evaluation

The Effect of Marijuana Legalization on Jail Populations in Washington State

Journal

Prison Journal

Date Published

September 2020

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Advancing Research on Rural Justice Systems

15PNIJ-21-GG-02805-RESS

Open

Funding First Awarded

2021

$768,881

A Process and Impact Evaluation of Illinois' Policy to Eliminate Cash Bail and Reform Pretrial Practices

15PNIJ-21-GG-02807-RESS

Open

Funding First Awarded

2021

$632,781

“All reentry is local”: Evaluating a Strategy to Reenter State Prisoners through Local Correctional Systems

15PNIJ-21-GG-00138-NIJB

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2021

$249,766

Study Protocol: A randomized controlled trial of suicide risk reduction in the year following jail release (the SPIRIT Trial)

Journal

Contemporary Clinical Trials

Date Published

2020

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Using Data and Science to Understand the Impact of COVID–19 on Corrections

Journal

Corrections Today

Date Published

September 2021

Agencies

NIJ

Using Data and Science to Understand the Impact of COVID–19 on Corrections

Drug- and Alcohol-Associated Deaths in US Jails

Journal

Journal of Correctional Health Care

Date Published

April 2020

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Preventing Violence and Sexual Assault in Jail: A Situational Crime Prevention Approach

Date Published

December 2011

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Program/Project Description

Evaluation of a Situational Crime Prevention Approach in Three Jails: The Jail Sexual Assault Prevention Project

Date Published

August 2011

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

Program/Project Evaluation

Census of Jails (Bureau of Justice Statistics)

The 2019 Census of Jails (COJ) is part of a series of data collections that studies the nation's local jails and the 12 Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) detention facilities that function as jails. The 2019 COJ collected data necessary for producing estimates on local jail populations, including one-day custody counts by sex, race and Hispanic origin, conviction status, and severity of offense (felony and...