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Corrections

Corrections. Series of Programs Management of Offenders Primary Means of Formal Control Current Political/Social Landscape. Corrections as a Series of Programs . How many corrections programs/places can you name? . What does corrections do? . Management of offenders People skills valued

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Corrections

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  1. Corrections Series of Programs Management of Offenders Primary Means of Formal Control Current Political/Social Landscape

  2. Corrections as a Series of Programs • How many corrections programs/places can you name?

  3. What does corrections do? • Management of offenders • People skills valued • Carrying out the sentence • Exceptions to this?

  4. The Incarceration “Binge”

  5. Its not just prisons and jails

  6. Overall trends hide some variation • Race • White incarceration rate = 410/100,000 • Black = 3,200/100,000 • Hispanic = 1,200/100,000 • State variation • “Big 4” states house 40% of nations inmates • Why does MN have 10,000 inmates and WI 25,000?

  7. Corrections as part of “system” • Other CJ agencies affect corrections: • Legislature • Police • Courts • HOWEVER  sometimes little communication or feedback • Not really a single system • 51 different systems (at a minimum) in the U.S.

  8. The Correctional System • One component of corrections can have an impact on other components • Examples from the 1980s and 1990s • Prison crowding • Probation and parole supervision strategy

  9. Issues in Corrections • History • Goals/rationale for corrections • Politics and ideology • Performance/effectiveness • Past 15 years = push to “evidence-based” • Management • How much to PO’s, CO’s, Wardens matter?

  10. Current Correctional Climate • Political • Corrections used to be “left to the experts” • Attack on rehabilitation in the 1970s • Voting on sentencing structures and practices • California “propositions” • Public • Prisons from strange places out in the “sticks” to… • Fodder for entertainment and news television

  11. Groups • Assume the state of Minnesota mandates the closing of all prisons. • What would you do with serious criminal offenders?

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